to snuff
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5.7
- verb
- /snʌf/
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apagar
- The firefighter quickly snuffed the flames with his coat.
- quickly snuffed
He's that guy who feels like his fire is snuffed out.
- He's that guy who feels like his fire is snuffed out.
- What we're talking about, We're talking about snuffing out life.
- As if the city itself had been snuffed out.
- Don't like, you know, snuff out that light when it's just been, you know, lit for the first time.
- Then the idea of the light of consciousness being snuffed out by something that is very competent but has no consciousness is really, really sad.
- All life just snuffed out is what I told the girls who wouldn't date me.
- So as an embryo is trying to implant the the adenomyosis grows around it and it will snuff it out like like a BLOB.
- They're not sure and, and these are about to be snuffed out.
- There was an active effort to kill them, to shut them down by the Republican Congress that helped snuff out the, the survivors.
Examples
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There are other ways to snuff out a light.
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The room was filled with the pleasant smell of candles just snuffed, a smoke that was sweet and wholly unthreatening.
Fiction book (2002) -
Once you name something, you snuff the life out of it.
Fiction book (1999) -
Snuff out the enemies that are still alive.
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I'm going to give you a chance to save them, and if you cannot turn them back, we are going to snuff them out like that.
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Don't like, you know, snuff out that light when it's just been, you know, lit for the first time.
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The altar boy returned to snuff the candles and collect the cruets of wine and water.
Fiction book (1994) -
At some lamps, he stood on tiptoe and snuffed them with the bell-like device at the end of the hook.
Fiction book (1997) -
She used her fingers to snuff out the candle before going to bed.
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To ensure safety, he decided to snuff out the campfire completely before leaving the site.
Synonyms
114
2.0
Make a fire, light, or cigarette stop burning
50
2.4
Stop a flame by breathing on it
23
4.4
Stop a fire, candle, or other light from burning
20
4.3
To press something hard with your foot or a tool to crush it
20
5.1
To stop a fire or light from burning
11
5.3
To stop a small fire by covering it so it has no air
6
4.7
Stop a flame, candle, or small fire from burning
5
2.5
Stop a fire burning and spreading
3
5.3
To press the burning end of a cigarette against a surface to put it out
1
4.0
To press a small burning thing so it stops burning, for example a cigarette
To stop something burning by crushing it
To put out a fire or light
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Etymology
The verb snuff meaning to put out a flame comes from the old practice of pinching or trimming the wick to stop the light; that action was called 'snuffing', so to 'snuff out' something means to stop it, especially a candle.