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To make a brisk sharp cracking sound: "Logs snapped in the grate” ( James Fox).
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To break suddenly with a brisk, sharp, cracking sound.
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To give way abruptly under pressure or tension: With so many people crowding onto the platform, its supports snapped.
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To suffer a physical or mental breakdown, especially while under stress: feared that the troops would snap from fatigue.
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To bring the jaws briskly together, often with a clicking sound; bite.
(verb-intransitive)
American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.