snuffs (out)

present tense third-person singular of snuff (out)
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snuffs (out)
Verb
  • The 27-year-old's extension extinguishes any remaining embers surrounding the possibility of the Mavericks trading him this offseason.
    Bobby Krivitsky, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Bonacini wants gold — a sterilizing cure that eradicates every trace of the virus and cannot return.
    Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Anderson, who both wrote and directed the film, suppresses psychological complexity, creating characters who are little more than abstractions.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Lower Stress Chronic stress suppresses your immune response and can eventually lead to an increase in inflammation.
    Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Flow Space, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Undue’s bulk purchase of debt affords them a substantial discount, so every donor dollar erases around $100 in debt.
    Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Whereas Jonathan Greenard is a game-wrecker against the run and pass, and Van Ginkel erases most screens and outlet passes to the perimeter, Turner isn’t that type of guy right now.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While the presumption was always that Messi would renew with the Herons, the news quells any lingering anxiety.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Twenty years later, an adult Guinevere is building her ghostwriting career when her estranged artist brother announces an installation titled Mother, which quells disturbing revelations in Guinevere.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, this measure abolishes them.
    Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The Iranian parliament has just approved a law that abolishes prison sentences for those who had to leave Iran illegally.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • For those who are more into curves than angles, the Bialetti Moon takes all the functional elements of the moka stovetop espresso maker and subdues them with a rounded stainless steel silhouette.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and a former Google executive, has warned in the past that there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI wipes out humans.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025
  • That timeline could shrink if a massive fraud wipes out public confidence in the Internet.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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“Snuffs (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snuffs%20%28out%29. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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