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                              verb ADV.  almost | quickly | away, up She leapt to her feet, snatching up her bag. VERB + SNATCH  try to PREP.  at He snatched at her arm as she walked past. | from She almost snatched the letter from my hand.,   noun ADJ.  brief VERB + SNATCH  catch, hear, overhear We caught snatches of conversation from the room next door. | hum, sing He was humming a snatch of a song from ‘Cabaret’. PREP.  in ~es She learnt to sleep in brief snatches. PHRASES  a snatch of conversation/music/song
                        
                        
 
                        
                            Oxford Collocations Dictionary