snuff sth out
— phrasal verb with snuff /snʌf/ verb [T]Definition
› informal to cause something to end suddenly: The country has been able to celebrate the return of its independence so brutally snuffed out in 1940.Causing something to endComing to an end › to put out a flame, especially from a candle: One by one she snuffed out the candles.Stopping fires
(Definition of snuff sth out from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- -stopper suffix
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- and have done with it idiom
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