to make a flame stop burning by squeezing it with your fingers or covering it with a snuffer
to make something end quickly, especially by using force
I heard the cigar snuff out in a metal ashtray, followed by keystrokes.
It was the government’s most brutal attempt to snuff out the rebellion.
snuffs out
snuffing out
snuffed out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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