Synonyms for snuff out
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : snuhf |
| Phonetic Transcription : snÊŒf |
Top 10 synonyms for snuff out Other synonyms for the word snuff out
Définition of snuff out
Origin :- "to cut or pinch off the burned part of a candle wick," mid-15c., from noun snoffe "burned part of a candle wick" (late 14c.), of unknown origin, perhaps related to snuff (v.2). The meaning "to die" is from 1865; that of "to kill" is from 1932; snuff-film, originally an urban legend, is from 1975.
- verb kill
- I must have a care I don't get some of that snuff out of his nose.
- Extract from : « The Politician Out-Witted » by Samuel Low
- People often made their own snuff out of roll tobacco, by means of rasps.
- Extract from : « The Journal to Stella » by Jonathan Swift
- She was good to me many a time, and give me snuff out of her box.
- Extract from : « Pippin; A Wandering Flame » by Laura E. Richards
- I'd lash the beggar to a tree and leave him to snuff out for hisself.
- Extract from : « The Boss of Taroomba » by E. W. Hornung
- If I've got to carry it—beyond—I pray God will snuff out my soul—like a candle!
- Extract from : « The Lash » by Olin L. Lyman
- At the conclusion of the feast, Willis took a pinch of snuff out of a canister.
- Extract from : « Willis the Pilot » by Johanna Spyri
- It was incredible that fate itself should snuff out in a day that spark of fire.
- Extract from : « The Forest of Swords » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- We hain't got no discippline, or we'd a cleaned them fellers out quick as Forty could snuff out a fire.
- Extract from : « From School to Battle-field » by Charles King
- But in that case I should be very glad to respond to your suggestion, and to snuff out all my smaller disinclination.
- Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens
- It hardly seems worth while to be overfond of relative or friend whom a breath of wind may snuff out like a flame.
- Extract from : « The Joys of Being a Woman » by Winifred Kirkland
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