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snuffing (out)verbpresent participle of snuff (out) to cause to cease burningsnuff out the candle blanketing, dousing(also dowsing), extinguishing, putting out, quenching choking, smothering, suffocatingblowing out, rubbing out, snubbing (out), stamping (out), stubbing firing, igniting, inflaming(also enflaming), kindling, lighting to destroy all traces ofthe forest fire snuffed out all of the animal life in the immediate area abolishing, annihilating, blacking out, blotting out, canceling(or cancelling), cleaning (up), effacing, eradicating, erasing, expunging, exterminating, extirpating, liquidating, obliterating, rooting (out), rubbing out, stamping (out), sweeping (away), wiping out decimating, demolishing, destroying, devastating, ravagingdismantling, flattening, mowing (down), razing, tearing downruining, totaling(or totalling), wasting, wreckingblasting, blowing up, dashing, dynamiting, smashingatomizing, consuming, devouring, dissolving, fragmenting, powdering, pulverizing, shattering, splinteringdooming, finishing, killing, killing off, terminating, zappingcanceling(or cancelling), cutting, discarding, ditching, ejecting, excising, expelling, jettisoning, ousting, throwing out conserving, preserving, protecting, savingbuilding, constructing, creating, fabricating, fashioning, forging, forming, framing, making, manufacturing, shapingfixing, mending, patching, rebuilding, reconditioning, reconstructing, renewing, renovating, repairing, restoring, revamping to put a stop to (something) by the use of forcebrutally snuffed out the movement for democratic rule clamping down (on), cracking down (on), crushing, putting down, quashing, quelling, repressing, silencing, slapping down, squashing, squelching, subduing, suppressing dousing(also dowsing), extinguishing, putting out, quenchingsmothering, stifling, strangling, throttlingannihilating, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, nuking, rubbing out, ruining, smashing, wasting, wreckingexterminating, obliterating, wiping outconquering, dominating, overcoming, overpowering, overwhelming, subduing, subjugating, vanquishing sitting on abetting, aiding, assisting, backing, helping, propping up, supportingfomenting, inciting, instigating, provoking, stirring, whipping (up)advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting |