Usually means: Extinguishes candle flame with tool.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. snuffs: Merriam-Webster
  2. snuffs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. snuffs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Snuffs, snuffs: Wordnik
  5. snuffs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. snuffs: Wiktionary
  7. snuffs: Dictionary.com
  8. snuffs: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. snuffs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. snuffs: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. snuffs: Medical dictionary

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  1. snuffs: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (snuff)

noun:  Finely ground or pulverized tobacco intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
noun:  Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue.
noun:  A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
noun:  The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
noun:  Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
noun:  (obsolete) Snot, mucus.
noun:  (obsolete) Smell, scent, odour.
verb:  To inhale through the nose.
verb:  To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence.
verb:  (transitive, UK, Ireland, slang, obsolete) To drug (a person) with a mixture of snuff and beer.
noun:  The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which must be periodically removed).
noun:  (obsolete) Leavings in a glass after drinking; heeltaps.
noun:  (slang) A murder.
noun:  (attributive, slang) A film or video clip which involves a real non-acted murder.
verb:  To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
verb:  (obsolete) To trim the burnt part of a candle wick.
verb:  (slang) To snuff out; to extinguish; to put out; to kill.
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