arrebatar

From a- +‎ rebate +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: ar‧re‧ba‧tar

arrebatar (first-person singular present arrebato, first-person singular preterite arrebatei, past participle arrebatado)

1. to snatch, grab

   Synonym: arrancar

2. to ravish (to delight to ecstasy)

   Synonyms: encantar, extasiar

• arrebatado
• arrebatamento

From a- +‎ rebatar, from rebato.

• IPA^(key): /arebaˈtaɾ/ [a.re.β̞aˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧rre‧ba‧tar

arrebatar (first-person singular present arrebato, first-person singular preterite arrebaté, past participle arrebatado)

1. (ditransitive) to snatch, wrest
   • 2017 July 1, “Obituario 2016”, in La Nacion‎:

     Bailaba como si su pequeño cuerpo pudiera soportarlo y, al fin, esa exigencia física jugó un papel en arrebatárnoslo: Prince Rogers Nelson falleció por una sobredosis de opiáceos analgésicos.

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   Synonym: (obsolete) rebatar

2. (transitive) to captivate (with beauty)
3. (transitive) to take (a life)
4. (reflexive) to get angry, to get carried away

• → Italian: arrabattarsi

• “arrebatar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014