snuff
verb/snʌf/
/snʌf/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they snuff | /snʌf/ /snʌf/ |
| he / she / it snuffs | /snʌfs/ /snʌfs/ |
| past simple snuffed | /snʌft/ /snʌft/ |
| past participle snuffed | /snʌft/ /snʌft/ |
| -ing form snuffing | /ˈsnʌfɪŋ/ /ˈsnʌfɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] snuff something (out) to stop a small flame from burning, especially by pressing it between your fingers or covering it with something synonym extinguish
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- [intransitive, transitive] snuff (something) (of an animal) to smell something by breathing in noisily through the nose
- The dogs were snuffing gently at my feet.
Word Originverb sense 1 late Middle English: of unknown origin. verb sense 2 late Middle English (as a verb): from Middle Dutch snuffen ‘to snuffle’. The noun dates from the late 17th cent. and is probably an abbreviation of Dutch snuftabak.
Idioms
See snuff in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarysnuff it
- (British English, slang, humorous) to die
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