I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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out
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But he was constantly snuffed out by City's engine-room battlers.
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A stultifying inversion has snuffed out some of the most ambitious air-quality bills in the Legislature this year.
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What was it all about when some one like Mac could be snuffed out , just like that?
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I stopped suddenly, the rage, like a candle flame, snuffed out .
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The breath was knocked out of him, the spell scattered and snuffed out.
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John Henry threw his hammer and snuffed out the fuse.
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Any question of a coup or a move towards popular democracy had been snuffed out .
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But the canal era was nearing its end, snuffed out by the new railroads.
■ NOUN
candle
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He snuffed out the candle and, putting his face over the glass chimney of the lamp, blew out the flame.
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Method: Any random idiot knows how to snuff out a candle after a quick lick of the fingers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Any hopes of a comeback by the Raiders were snuffed at the start of the second half.
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How could anyone be so evil that they could snuff out the life of a young girl?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he was constantly snuffed out by City's engine-room battlers.
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Still, it took another gem, by third baseman Ken Caminiti, to snuff that threat.
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The breath was knocked out of him, the spell scattered and snuffed out.
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The Cowboys had tried to snuff them.
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Thompson took a fine ball from Pugh after 12 minutes and again raced clear but Swansea's defence snuffed out the danger.
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What was it all about when some one like Mac could be snuffed out, just like that?
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
box
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In his hands he holds a snuff box , shaped like a small quiver, and a thin stick.
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Many of Birmingham's population of artisans were occupied in producing trays and caddies, as well as snuff boxes for Virginia tobacco.
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Its use in the past included the manufacture of spoons and snuff boxes .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But she dipped her thumb and forefinger into the bag and took out a pinch of snuff .
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I jumped up in fright and in the process knocked the snuff out of her hand.
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One of the mills still produces snuff .
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She'd taxed him with trading them for snuff , which was his passion, and he'd not denied it.
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She took a pinch of snuff in her hand and sprinkled it over the note murmuring something under her breath.
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The probably truth is that, like snuff , he regularly got up aristocratic noses.
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They never said anything about snuff , silverweed and horse-racing.