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snuff out
Thesaurus| Verb | 1. | snuff out - put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"extinguishdo away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"stamp - destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot; "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny"put out, smother - deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires" | | 2. |  snuff out - put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"blow out, extinguish, quenchstub - extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigarette now"douse, put out - put out, as of a candle or a light; "Douse the lights"black out - obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived" |
snuffverbTo perceive with the olfactory sense:nose, scent, smell, sniff, whiff.Idiom: catch a whiff of.phrasal verb
snuff out1. To cause to stop burning or giving light:douse, extinguish, put out, quench.2. To destroy all traces of:abolish, annihilate, blot out, clear, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, kill, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root (out or up), rub out, stamp out, uproot, wipe out.Idioms: do away with, make an end of, put an end to.Translationssnuff2 (snaf) verb to snip off the burnt part of the wick of (a candle or lamp). 剪(燭)花 剪（烛）花 snuff out1. to extinguish the flame of (a candle etc). He snuffed out the candle by squeezing the wick between his thumb and forefinger. 掐滅(燭火等) 掐灭（烛火等） 2. to (cause to) come to a sudden end. Opposition was quickly snuffed out. 突然撲滅 突然扑灭snuff out
snuff out1. To extinguish something, especially a flame. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "snuff" and "out." She snuffed the flame of the candle out between her fingers. The system uses halon gas to snuff out fire before it has a chance to spread. That loss snuffs out their chances to make the playoffs.2. To kill someone. In this usage, a name, noun, or pronoun can be used between "snuff" and "out." He was planning on going to the police, but the criminals snuffed him out before he had the chance. Tragically, he was snuffed out in his prime by cancer.See also: out, snuffsnuff someone outSl. to kill someone. Max really wanted to snuff the eyewiteness out, once and for all. Lefty wanted to snuff out his partner.See also: out, snuffsnuff something outto extinguish something, such as a flame. she snuffed all the candles out and went to bed. Karen snuffed out the flames one by one.See also: out, snuffsnuff out1. Extinguish, put a sudden end to, as in Three young lives were snuffed out in that automobile accident. This usage alludes to snuff in the sense of "put out a candle by pinching the wick," an area itself called snuff from the late 1300s on. [Mid-1800s] 2. Kill, murder, as in If he told the police, the gang would snuff him out. [Slang; first half of 1900s] 3. Also, snuff it. Die or be killed, as in He looked very ill indeed, as though he might snuff out any day, or Grandpa just snuffed it. [Slang; second half of 1800s] See also: out, snuffsnuff outv.1. To extinguish something: The altar server snuffed out the candles. I saw her snuff a match out with her fingers.2. To put a sudden end to something: The war has snuffed out many young lives. I had a promising career as a dancer, but a tragic injury snuffed it out.3. Slang To kill someone; murder someone: The police accused the widow of snuffing out her husband. The gangsters snuffed him out before he could testify in court.See also: out, snuffsnuff someone (out) tv. to kill someone. Max really wanted to snuff the eyewitness out, once and for all. See also: out, snuff, someoneEncyclopediaSeesnuffsnuff out
Synonyms for snuff outverb put an end toSynonymsRelated Words- do away with
- eliminate
- get rid of
- extinguish
- stamp
- put out
- smother
verb put out, as of fires, flames, or lightsSynonymsRelated Words- stub
- douse
- put out
- black out
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