snape (English, verb)
expansion: snape (third-person singular simple present snapes, present participle snaping, simple past and past participle snaped)
expansion: (archaic or British, dialectal)
Senses:
glosses: To check or curtail (the growth of something); also, to check or curtail the growth of (a plant, etc.).
tags: British
archaic
dialectal
transitive
glosses: Synonym of sneap (“to check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand”).
tags: British
archaic
dialectal
transitive
glosses: To chide, to rebuke, to reprimand.
tags: British
archaic
dialectal
intransitive
Forms:
form: snapes
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snaping
tags: participle
present
form: snaped
tags: participle
past
form: snaped
tags: past