snuff out
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snuff out
verb snuffs out · snuffing out · snuffed out
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To extinguish (literally, especially by physically covering or rubbing); to extinguish (figuratively): to stop (a process), to kill (a process).
Near-synonym: smother
Similar: smother
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To kill a living being.
He sighed, stifled his urge to snuff out the moron who designed this work process, and got back to work.
Similar: rub out, annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bump off, bury, cack, compromised to a permanent end, croak
- To die. People snuff out at all ages: accident apart, our vital clocks vary […]
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verb to extinguish
| Español | extinguir, apagar, despabilar |
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| Français | moucher |
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