The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snuff \Snuff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snuffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Snuffing.] [OE. snuffen. See Snuff of a candle Snuff to sniff.] To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of.
To snuff out, to extinguish by snuffing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act by which a candle, etc. is snuffed out. 2 The act of one who snuffs or makes a low sniffing sound. vb. (present participle of snuff English)
Usage examples of "snuffing".
The shadows enter them, snuffing the light from their eyes and the warmth from their hearts.
The shadows enter them, snuffing the light from their eyes and the warmth from their hearts .
He batted it backward, then stabbed the prone orc behind the ear, snuffing the light in its sunken eyes.
A beautiful creature stood near the water, snuffing the air with flared nostrils.
There was only the odd flash of answering fire from the gun pits on the beach, and the Buzzard responded immediately to these, swinging his ship and bringing to bear the full power of his broadside, snuffing them out with a whirlwind of grape, flying sand and falling trees.
After the Scylvendi left, and they always left, who would stop the Kianene heathens from snuffing out the muddied blood of Kyraneas, from cutting out the Three Hearts of God: Sumna, the Thousand Temples, and the Tusk?
Crusoe instantly set off all round among the willows, in and out, snuffing everywhere, and whining with excitement.
Crusoe put his nose to the ground and ran forward a few paces, then he returned and ran about snuffing and scraping up the snow.
Saturn here discarded the ladder and then followed Daniel down the current, snuffing out candles as he went, and both of them keeping an eye peeled for hat-boxes that had gone astray.
He wandered for what seemed hours and saw feral hogs snuffing and grunting among the dead, their snouts strung with lights.
In his sleep he heard roosters crowing, a hog snuffing inside a railed lot, horses nickering and thudding their hooves impatiently in a woods.