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as in stamped (out)

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snuffed (out)

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verb

past tense of snuff (out)
1
as in extinguished
to cause to cease burning snuff out the candle

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2
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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3
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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  1. choked
  2. extinguished
  3. eradicated
  4. suppressed
  5. smothered
  6. erased
  7. quelled
  8. damped
Adjective
  • However, that deal fell apart after the US unleashed a fresh wave of attacks on Iran in mid-July, following Iranian strikes on vessels in the choked Strait of Hormuz.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 24 July 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
Definition of choked
Verb
  • Others are quickly extinguished by firefighters on the ground after being spotted from the air.
    — Brian Maass, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Police called in crisis negotiators to persuade the man to surrender as firefighters extinguished the fire.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of extinguished
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  • Smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980 and no longer naturally circulates, was once one of the world's deadliest diseases.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The Asian giant hornet—aka murder hornet—was eradicated from Washington state and hasn’t become established here.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of eradicated
Verb
  • Hydrogen evolution is therefore suppressed, leaving more opportunity for CO₂-derived pathways that produce carbon monoxide and formate.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
  • And the nastiest errors of all, the bit-flips, are suppressed to around one in a million operations.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of suppressed
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
Verb
  • Their efforts have successfully erased half the population from public life and made Afghanistan one of the world’s most dangerous places to be a woman.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • But what frightened me most was not death alone, but the idea of dying before my writings reached the world—that my story would disappear with me, and that my feelings, my memories, my identity, and my human experience would be erased.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of erased
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  • Reading it immediately quells, or at least quelled my own, paranoia at being alone in the middle of the forest—nobody is getting got here, there’s a gate that only opens if the concierge approves of your face, voice, and name.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, officials have quelled concerns about nearby nuclear power stations.
    — Tiago Ventura, Time, 30 July 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
Definition of damped
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“Snuffed (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snuffed%20%28out%29. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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