Snatched vs Clutched - What's the difference?
snatched | clutched |
(snatch)
To grasp quickly.
To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch.
To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
* Alexander Pope
To grasp and remove quickly.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
* Thomson
To steal.
(by extension) To take a victory at the last moment.
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(weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
A vulva.
* 1962 , Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall , Grove Press, page 83,
* 1985 , Jackie Collins, Lucky , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671524933, page 150,
* 2008 , Jim Craig, North to Disaster , Bushak Press, ISBN 0961711213, page 178,
(clutch)
To seize, as though with claws.
* Collier
* Shakespeare
To grip or grasp tightly.
* Shakespeare
The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
(by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
* Cowper
* Carlyle
* Bishop Stillingfleet
* 1919 ,
A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used between engine and gearbox in a car.
The pedal in a car that disengages power transmission.
Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
(US) An important or critical situation.
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(US) Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
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* 2009 , Scott Trocchia, The 2006 Yankees: The Frustration of a Nation, A Fan's Perspective , page 21:
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A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
A group or bunch (of people or things).
* 2012 , The Economist, 22nd Sep.,
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clutch pedal
As verbs the difference between snatched and clutched
is that snatched is (snatch) while clutched is (clutch).snatched
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *snatch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) snacchen, snecchen, from (etyl) . Related to snack.Verb
- to snatch a kiss
- when half our knowledge we must snatch , not take
- "How many times have I told you?" she cried, and seized him and snatched his stick away from him.
- Snatch me to heaven.
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Synonyms
* grab * See alsoDerived terms
* snatcher * purse snatcher * (l)Noun
(es)- The leftfielder makes a nice snatch to end the inning.
- I heard a snatch of Mozart as I passed the open window.
- Claude, is it true what they say about Olovia? Of course she’s getting a little old for us—what about Marilyum, did you try her snatch ?
- Roughly Santino ripped the sheet from the bed, exposing all of her. She had blond hair on her snatch , which drove him crazy. He was partial to blondes.
- “You want me to ask Brandy to let you paint her naked body with all this gooey stuff to make a mold of her snatch ?”
Synonyms
* (vagina) cunt, twatEtymology 2
Anagrams
* *clutched
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*clutch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) clucchen, clicchen, cluchen, clechen, cleken, from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) , of uncertain origin, with the form probably assimilated to the verb. Alternative etymology derives Old English clyccan from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal) * (l) (obsolete)Verb
(es)- to clutch power
- A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp.
- Is this a dagger which I see before me ? / Come, let me clutch thee.
- She clutched her purse tightly and walked nervously into the building.
- Not that I have the power to clutch my hand.
Noun
(es)- the clutch of poverty
- an expiring clutch at popularity
- I must have little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant.
- You scold yourself; you know it is only your nerves—and yet, and yet... In a little while it is impossible to resist the terror that seizes you, and you are helpless in the clutch of an unseen horror.
- The clutch which I had made to save myself in falling had torn away this chin-band and let the lower jaw drop on the breast; but little else was disturbed, and there was Colonel John Mohune resting as he had been laid out a century ago.
Synonyms
* clutch bag (small handbag)Adjective
(en adjective)- I start with his most obvious characteristic: he was clutch'. He is Mr. '''Clutch'''. In the last chapter I mentioned that Bernie Williams was '''clutch''', which was a valid assessment, but nobody on the Yankees was as ' clutch as Jeter was.
Etymology 2
Variant form of (cletch), from (etyl) .Noun
(es)Innovation in Government: Britain's Local Labs
- No longer would Britons routinely blame the national government when things went wrong. Instead they would demand action from a new clutch of elected mayors, police commissioners and the like.
Alternative forms
*Noun
(nb-noun-m1)- trå in clutchen - step on the clutch
