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Shona Definition

Ku bvuta kutorera mumwe chinhu chake zvine mukundo, pasina kuwirirana kana nguva yekumbotaurirana, sezviya zvinoitwa nembavha pamusika. Mauto avo akabvuta nyika nechisimba kubva kuhurumende.

English Translation

To snatch is to forcefully take something from someone else, without agreement or a chance for discussion, like thieves do at the market. Their army seized the country violently from the government.

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