snapped

verbseparate, break
verbbite, seize
verbspeak sharply

Synonyms for snapped

verb separate, break

Antonyms for snapped

Word Origin & History

late 15c., "quick, sudden bite or cut," from Dutch or Low German snappen "to snap," probably related to Middle Low German or Middle Dutch snavel "bill, beak," from West Germanic *snu-, an imitative root forming words having to do with the nose (see snout).

As an adjective from 1790. Commonly used to indicate instantaneous action, e.g. snap judgment (1841). Sense of "quick movement" is first recorded 1630s; that of "something easily done" is 1877. Meaning "brief or sudden spell" of weather (usually cold) is from 1740. Meaning "catch or fastener that closes with a snapping sound" is from 1815. The card game name is attested from 1881, from a call used in the game. Meaning "a snap-shot" is from 1894. U.S. football sense is from 1912, earlier snap-back (1880), which also was a name for the center position. Snap, Crackle and Pop, cartoon characters associated with Kellogg breakfast cereal Rice Krispies, are from 1940.

Example Sentences for snapped

Then, hardly looking at his target, he snapped his rifle back to his shoulder and fired.

"We don't scare worth a cent," she snapped, with the virulence of a vixen.

Burke's broad jowls shook from the force with which he snapped his jaws together.

He struck the rivet such a blow that he snapped one shank of his spur short off.

"I don't see that it matters, whether she could or not," snapped the Little Doctor.

Lauriston snapped his fingers and shrugged his shoulders in contempt of duty.

In his excitement the dominie had snapped the stem of his tobacco pipe in two.

"Then let him enter here; I have no time to go out to listen to his talk," snapped Betty.

When she was dead, might not a tie, between the uncle and nephew, be snapped asunder?

"Well, I want to see him, and I want to see him before noon," he snapped.

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tighter

tightest

torn

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