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.
They have a certain potential, which can be snuffed out, but they do not attain the more autonomous state of life.
Clearly, wood materials were dropped into the shaft while burning and snuffed out due to lack of oxygen as the shaft filled.
You couldn't believe his life could be snuffed out.
The chalk downs began to revert to sheep pasture, which snuffed out many arable farmers and meant a steeply falling demand for labour.
It would be less than truthful to suggest that such sharp practices have been snuffed out or discontinued.
Is it not time you snuffed the profiteers out?
On the contrary, whenever one of those countries has moved towards independence it has been ruthlessly snuffed out.
However, all rebellion has been snuffed out over the past 13 years, and that is sad.