SNUFFED (OUT) Synonyms: 185 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in stamped (out)

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snuffed (out)

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verb

past tense of snuff (out)

as in extinguished

to cause to cease burning snuff out the candle

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as in eradicated

to destroy all traces of the forest fire snuffed out all of the animal life in the immediate area

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as in suppressed

to put a stop to (something) by the use of force brutally snuffed out the movement for democratic rule

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Adjective

Baghaei said the future of the choked Strait of Hormuz will depend on the countries of Oman and Iran, as both nations have a plan to manage passage through the waterway.

— Alayna Treene, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
San Franciscans who think Muni buses are always packed, or prone to crawl along choked streets, may find their views validated in a new slide presentation released by the Municipal Transportation Agency.

— Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Jan. 2026

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The fire was isolated to a meat case and has since been extinguished, said Mabrie Jackson, H-E-B’s managing director of public affairs.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 July 2026
Firefighting efforts are still underway, although media reports now say the open flames have been largely extinguished.

— Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 9 July 2026

Definition of extinguished

Verb

But before the thylacine was fully eradicated, 13 pups of the marsupial species were preserved in alcohol.

— Taylor Dotson, Scientific American, 10 July 2026
Racist chanting in grounds has been heard since the 1960s and though less common now, it has not been eradicated, as recent examples of the abuse of Real Madrid’s Vinicius Junior show.

— Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 6 July 2026

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Why use glyphosate For well over a century, the state and federal government aggressively suppressed all fire in California forests — many of which were adapted to low-severity flames that rolled through the understory every five to 20 years.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 123 drones into the country in its latest wave, of which 108 drones were shot down or suppressed.

— David Brennan, ABC News, 7 July 2026

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Adjective

Outside of smothered biscuit sandwiches, District Biskuits also sells mac and cheese, chicken tenders with various dipping sauces, waffle fries and other sides.

— Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2026
Breakfast is a treat, with made-from-scratch English muffins and housemade jams, plus heartier items like a smothered breakfast burrito.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026

Definition of smothered

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Burke said Washington left Bedford, confident that the protest had been quelled through his diplomacy.

— Salena Zito, Washington Post, 1 July 2026
But that hasn’t entirely quelled fears that the boom is just setting investors up for a bust when spending cools, a dynamic that has played out in past semiconductor cycles, which have been particularly painful for memory-chip makers.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 June 2026

Definition of quelled

Adjective

These modes are referred to as a damped harmonic oscillator.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Mar. 2026
The story of damped harmonic systems goes back to 1900, when British physicist Horace Lamb built a simple mathematical model of a particle vibrating inside a solid.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025

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