verb
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To inhale through the nose.
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To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence.
verb
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To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
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To trim the burnt part of a candle wick.
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To kill a person; to snuff out.
noun
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The act by which a candle, etc. is snuffed out.
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The act of one who, or that which, snuffs or makes a low sniffing sound.
Examples of snuffing in a Sentence
She had been as guilty of snuffing his pride as he had been of putting her down.
Under the pretext of snuffing the candle, they put it out.
After a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he had entered.