snapped
SNAPT/snæpt/
- 1Simple past and past participle of snap.
The rope snapped under the strain and the boat drifted away.
She snapped at her coworker after a long, stressful day.
Note
One spelling does double duty as past tense and past participle, with the final p doubled before -ed. Only the breaking meaning takes an object, so only it has a passive: a branch can be snapped by the wind. The biting, cracking and sharp-speaking meanings take no object and reach their target through at: the dog snapped at his hand, she snapped at her coworker.
snapped is a form of snap
snap, verb: To break suddenly and sharply, or cause something to break this way, often with a cracking sound. Full entry
- Spelling
- snap → snapped: double the p, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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