0 past simple and past participle of snuff --
1 to put out a flame, especially from a candle, usually by covering it with something: --
One by one she snuffed the candles.
If the forest were sold to faceless investors those rights could be snuffed out and people would be denied rights of access.
So my little moment of glory as an academic historian was, in a sense, snuffed out before it even began.
If we do not support our friends, one by one they will be snuffed out and, in the end, we may find ourselves isolated.
Victims of loyalist firebombs, their young lives were snuffed out.
The deal was attractive but now it is inconvenient to its sponsor and it is to be snuffed out.
All those measures are likely to dampen consumer activity and could lead to the recovery being snuffed out before it has got going.
How many tens of thousands of lives will be snuffed out or seriously affected if we do not adopt these two measures?
However, all rebellion has been snuffed out over the past 13 years, and that is sad.
