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2022-03-01 09:03
Snuff out phrase slang
To make a small flame stop burning, especially by pressing it between your fingers or covering it with something.
I was amazed at how she snuffed out that candle with her fingers.
Remember snuffing out the match before throwing it into the trash bin.
To bring something to a sudden and conclusive end.
The police arrived and snuffed out the fighting in two minutes.
The meeting was snuffed out when the chairman was called away.
To make someone die.
They hired a professional assassin to snuff out the witness.
I wonder whether he feels any remorse for snuffing out that innocent kid.
1. If you press out a cigar, you press it against something to stop it from burning.
2. If you press out something, you apply pressure to flatten or shape it.
3. If you press out fruits, you squeeze them to obtain juice.
If something claims one's life, it takes their life or kills them.
With the threat of being killed as punishment, if one does not do something
To kill someone or oneself by shooting in the head.
To kill yourself.
The verb "snuff" must be conjugated according to its tense.
Meaning 1 dates from the mid 1800s.
Meaning 3 dates from the first half of 1900s.
Do you see anything wrong?
The similarity between the children and their parents
I looked at my father's eyes, then looked at my eyes. I thought the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
