upsnatch

Definitions

To seize or snatch up.

transitive

Examples

“With pity struck, with horror for my deed, The babe upsnatch'd away I bore with speed⟳ ; And, knowing Zion should be captive led, Far to these mountains of the East I sped.”

“With Zephyr from his palace in the west, thou dost upsnatch the Twins from cradled rest⟳, And strain⟳ them to thy breast, [...]”

“To her the wood-ivy, like⟳ a spirit, hovers round the old hawthorn, and everywhere "mystic Presences of power" "upsnatch" her "to the timeless, then return⟳" her "to the Hour."”

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