snuff (out)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snuff (out)
Verb
  • Firefighters discovered an electrical fire on the yacht’s upper deck upon arriving at the scene and extinguished the flames, the department told USA TODAY.
    Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Rescuers work to extinguish a fire caused by a Russian glide bomb at a hospital in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Lead poisoning, all but eradicated in the West, still harms millions of children in the developing world, with lead-acid battery recycling a key culprit.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Each of these roles — and several others — catered to the warmth and wit of an actress who helped eradicate regressive notions of what a Hollywood funnywoman could do.
    Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Secret Commonwealth is the condemnation of a world where imagination—not making things up, but a way of seeing, understanding, feeling the world—is suppressed by the dual forces of cold rationality and religious fundamentalisms that breed authoritarianism.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That power is often used to unfairly influence elections through massive campaign donations, to interfere with independent journalism by buying media outlets, and to suppress competition in markets.
    Scott Ellis, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • After a sleepy start, the Americans came to life throughout the middle third of the game, and erased an early 1-0 deficit to end their October camp on a high note.
    Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Many of those drivers could have stemmed or erased their losses simply by waiting for another year or two and paying off some or all of the remaining loan balance, Drury said.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The large police presence, with a handful of riot vans positioned between the protestors and the stadium entrance, quelled any threat of violence until a small flashpoint close to half-time — tear gas was briefly used to disperse activists who attempted to break through police barricades.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Those deployments provoked more protests, which, in turn, fuelled the Administration’s claims that troops are needed to quell them.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • However, when your organization was founded less than 45 years after slavery was abolished, when Black women were still being forced to be wet nurses to the very children of those who oppressed them and lynching was a common occurrence below the Mason-Dixon Line?
    Essence, Essence, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The European Parliament has twice called for Yahaya’s release, asking Nigeria to set an example by abolishing the blasphemy laws under which he has been detained for over five years.
    Sean Nelson, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Their taste can be subdued by pairing them with ingredients like herbs and lemon juice, and they can be used in place of almost any fish.
    Jillian Kubala, Health, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Spiders have venom to subdue prey, but the majority have fangs that are too tiny to puncture human skin.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Show-Me state has two Democrats in Congress and four Republicans, and a map Trump posted on social media would wipe out one Democratic seat.
    Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The Buckeyes benefited from a pair of penalties, including a face mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 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 19 Oct. 2025.

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