Snap Off (Verb)
Meaning
Break a piece from a whole; "break a branch from a tree".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The fragile plastic arm will snap off if it is bent too far backwards.
- She tried to snap off the frozen section of the pipe using some heat from her hair dryer.
- He used his fingers to snap off a piece of the brittle cookie and handed it to his sister.
- Her hand slipped and the thin metal pin snapped off causing her to lose her grip.
- He bent down and used his fingers to carefully snap off a hard green twig from the blackberry bush.