Usually means: Extinguishing a candle by pinching.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. snuffing: Merriam-Webster
  2. snuffing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. snuffing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Snuffing, snuffing: Wordnik
  5. snuffing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. snuffing: Wiktionary
  7. snuffing: Dictionary.com
  8. Snuffing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Snuffing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. snuffing: FreeDictionary.org
  11. snuffing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snuffing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snuffing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snuffing: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
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(Note: See snuff as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (snuffing)

noun:  The act by which a candle, etc. is snuffed out.
noun:  The act of one who, or that which, snuffs or makes a low sniffing sound.

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