snuff (out)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snuff (out)
Verb
  • Firefighters extinguished the burning palm tree while another crew was sent to check the roof of the home, McDade said.
    Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The boater first tried to extinguish the flames on the vessel at Flaming Gorge Reservoir at about 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, the Utah Department of Natural Resources Division of Law Enforcement said in a news release.
    Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Department of Justice will continue bringing litigation against sanctuary jurisdictions and work closely with the Department of Homeland Security to eradicate these harmful policies around the country.
    Peter Aitken Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Its nuclear infrastructure is wrecked but by no means wholly eradicated.
    Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The air force said Russia launched 270 drones and 10 missiles into Ukraine, of which 30 drones and six missiles were intercepted or suppressed.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The warming can leap back without something to suppress it.
    Chris Mooney, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The move to erase the sometimes ugly truth about this country’s history?
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 19 Aug. 2025
  • This practice of reframing doesn’t erase the problem, sure.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The system is expected to hook around a large plume of African dust that has been quelling hurricane development for the past several weeks, Fox Weather Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross wrote on his blog, Hurricane Intel.
    David Schutz, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
  • America’s military establishment tried to quell the outrage with a piece in Harper’s by Henry Stimson, a retired Secretary of War.
    Jane Mayer, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Even after slavery was abolished, some families who sought to find their kin never did.
    Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
  • New York state, where Gendron pleaded guilty to 15 state charges, including multiple counts of murder, abolished capital punishment in 2004.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Asia-Pacific markets were subdued overnight as a result.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The two also showed a demonstration of what a K9 takedown looks like, with Humphries acting as a target and K9 Bob subduing him.
    Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Russian curriculum they are forced to follow wipes out the centuries-long struggle for Ukrainian independence.
    Peter Pomerantsev, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
  • What's more terrifying: Dustin Hoffman in a space suit or an escaped monkey infected with a disease that could wipe out half of humanity?
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Snuff (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snuff%20%28out%29. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.

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