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unsnatching

unsnatching is the present participle and gerund of unsnatch.

Meaning of unsnatch

Verb

unsnatch (third-person singular simple present unsnatches, present participle unsnatching, simple past and past participle unsnatched)

  1. To release or let go that which has been snatched or grabbed.
  2. To retrieve something that was snatched.
    • As soon as the royal sheeve-hole comes below the cap, pass the lizard, securing it with a couple of half hitches, and lower away through lubber's hole; land it on deck with the heel aft, unsnatch the mast-rope. In the mean time, the new mast has been cleared away , laid alongside the old one, and...1871, Alfred Henry Alston, William Henry Rosser, R. H. Harris, May (Staff-Commander.), Captain Alston's Seamanship, page 389

Questions about unsnatching

What is unsnatching the present participle and gerund of?
Unsnatching is the present participle and gerund of unsnatch.

Words near unsnatching in the dictionary

  1. unsnarling
  2. unsnarls
  3. unsnatch
  4. unsnatched
  5. unsnatches
  6. unsnatching
  7. unsneck
  8. unsnecked
  9. unsnecking
  10. unsnecks
  11. unsneering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsnatching (page history and authors); unsnatch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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