verb, noun
verb [VN]
1 ~ sth (out) to stop a small flame from burning, especially by pressing it between your fingers or covering it with sth
2 (of an animal) to smell sth by breathing in noisily through the nose:
[V] The dogs were snuffing gently at my feet. [also VN]
IDIOMS
snuff it (BrE, humorous, slang) to die
PHRASALVERBS
snuff sth<->out (written) to stop or destroy sth completely:
An innocent child's life has been snuffed out by this senseless shooting.
noun [U] tobacco in the form of a powder that people take by breathing it into their noses
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for snuff is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does snuff appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — snuff appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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