🕯️ To put out flame 🚬 Powdered tobacco 👃 To sniff 🚬 To inhale powder 👃 A sniff 🕯️ Burnt wick 🟫 Brownish color

to snuff

2 9.1

To inhale a powdered drug or tobacco through the nose

verb
/snʌf/

NSFW

: aspirar rapé

Occasionally, he opened a container and snuffed a pinch of its contents into his nostrils.

OK, so neither cannabis nor nicotine will give you cancer, but smoking, vaping, dipping and snuffing can increase your risk of cancer.

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Examples

A sudden revelation seized Eddie and pulled him down to a seated position in his box, constricting him as he snuffed his roach against the wall.

Fiction book (1997)
When cold, snuff some of it inside the nostrils.

Blog text (16)
Occasionally, he opened a container and snuffed a pinch of its contents into his nostrils.
She snuffed the powdered tobacco before chatting with her friends at the party.
He used to snuff a bit of snuff after finishing his coffee each morning.

Synonyms

to snort

vsto snuff

NSFW

38 8.4

To breathe in a powdered drug through the nose

includes inhaling powdered tobacco as well as drugs

Phrasal Verbs

to snuff out

9 7.7

Put an end to something or to someone's life

to snuff out

6 4.7

Stop a flame, candle, or small fire from burning

to snuff it

Slang

2 9.9

To stop living and not come back

Compounds

snuff-color

Archaic

9.9

A dark yellow-brown color like powdered tobacco

snuff user

Archaic

9.6

A person who regularly inhales powdered tobacco through the nose

snuff-and-butter

Archaic

9.9

Ordinary talk that is simple and not deep

How Forceful

to snuff

NSFW

2 9.1

to inhale

84 2.7

sniff

84 1.1

Surface Forms

snuff infinitive

snuffed past

snuffed past participle

snuffing present participle

snuffs third person singular

Etymology

To snuff a substance means to inhale it through the nose; the word comes from the action 'to snuff' or sniff, which is why it names the way people take powdered tobacco or other powders.