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English to English noun
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a sharp protuberance |  | source: wordnet30
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a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest | | Example: a snag can provide food and a habitat for insects and birds
source: wordnet30
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an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | | Example: there was a rip in his pants
she had snags in her stockings
source: wordnet30
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an unforeseen obstacle | | source: wordnet30
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A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance. | | source: webster1913 verb
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catch on a snag | | Example: I snagged my stocking
source: wordnet30
| 7 |
get by acting quickly and smartly | | Example: snag a bargain
source: wordnet30
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hew jaggedly | | source: wordnet30
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To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly. | | source: webster1913
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