screengrab

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noun

A screenshot.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounscreengrab (plural screengrabs)

plural screengrabs · alternative screen grab

  1. computingA screenshot.

    "Let's boot out @GNRailUK and bring in @TfL to run our line," he tweeted later that year on June 25, sharing a screengrab of the latter's proposals.

    2019 November 20, Daniel Puddicombe, “Should Transport for London take over suburban services?”, in Rail, page 34
    1 more example

    The picture accompanying the article was in fact a screengrab of a video published by Reuters on 3 February and subsequently verified by the news agency’s fact check team, showing humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The image was pulled from Reuters footage shot after deadly battles with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.

    2025 May 22, “Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2025
verbscreengrab (third-person singular simple present screengrabs, present participle screengrabbing, simple past and past participle screengrabbed)

present singular third person screengrabs · participle present screengrabbing · participle past screengrabbed · past screengrabbed · alternative screen grab

  1. computingTo generate a screenshot.

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APA

screengrab. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/screengrab

MLA

“screengrab.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/screengrab. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “screengrab,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/screengrab.

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