upsnatch

verb

upsnatch

verb

Etymology From up- + snatch.

1

To seize or snatch up.

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.1832, Blackwood's magazine, volume 31:
With Zephyr from his palace in the west, thou dost upsnatch the Twins from cradled rest, And strain them to thy breast, [...]1855, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The poets and poetry of America:

1 more example

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."1907, Martha Foote Crow, Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

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