Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to snift
Participle: snifted
Gerund: snifting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | snift |
| you | snift |
| he;she;it | snifts |
| we | snift |
| you | snift |
| they | snift |
Perfect
| I | have snifted |
| you | have snifted |
| he;she;it | has snifted |
| we | have snifted |
| you | have snifted |
| they | have snifted |
Past
| I | snifted |
| you | snifted |
| he;she;it | snifted |
| we | snifted |
| you | snifted |
| they | snifted |
Pluperfect
| I | had snifted |
| you | had snifted |
| he;she;it | had snifted |
| we | had snifted |
| you | had snifted |
| they | had snifted |
Future
| I | will snift |
| you | will snift |
| he;she;it | will snift |
| we | will snift |
| you | will snift |
| they | will snift |
Future Perfect
| I | will have snifted |
| you | will have snifted |
| he;she;it | will have snifted |
| we | will have snifted |
| you | will have snifted |
| they | will have snifted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | snift |
| you | snift |
| he;she;it | snift |
| we | snift |
| you | snift |
| they | snift |
Perfect
| I | have snifted |
| you | have snifted |
| he;she;it | have snifted |
| we | have snifted |
| you | have snifted |
| they | have snifted |
Imperfect
| I | snifted |
| you | snifted |
| he;she;it | snifted |
| we | snifted |
| you | snifted |
| they | snifted |
Pluperfect
| I | had snifted |
| you | had snifted |
| he;she;it | had snifted |
| we | had snifted |
| you | had snifted |
| they | had snifted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would snift |
| you | would snift |
| he;she;it | would snift |
| we | would snift |
| you | would snift |
| they | would snift |
Perfect
| I | would have snifted |
| you | would have snifted |
| he;she;it | would have snifted |
| we | would have snifted |
| you | would have snifted |
| they | would have snifted |
Imperative
| you | snift |
| we | Let's snift |
| you | snift |
Verbs conjugated like 'snift'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'snift'
shift,
sift,
sniff,
snirt,
drift,
engift,
gift,
grift,
init,
knife,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Imitative. Compare Middle English snifteren (“to sniffle”).
Sample Sentences
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[S]he, also, entered, and coming pretty close to my Father, snifted at her Flowers with a sort of extatic eagerness, and then let them fall. [1792, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 349:]
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SNUFF. […] Reſentment expreſſed by ſnifting; […] [1755 April 15, Samuel Johnson, “SNUFF”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume II (L–Z), London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, column 1:]
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It now appears that they were still snifting narration of your lordship is for the greater part and hankering after their old [1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:]
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A cap and pipe should be put over the snifting clack, with an inch and a half cock upon it, by the partial opening of which the snifting can be regulated; but which will not be wanted , unless the valve should snift more than enough when it is left quite open , as it will be apt to do when all the preceding articles are put in execution. [1827, John Farey, A Treatise on the Steam Engine, page 253:]
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Hold it for a second or two to test the bottle, then snift, and fill the bottle up to the neck. [1907, M. L. Blumenthal, The Bottler's Helper, page 66:]
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Air impurity was reduced to 0.01 percent by freezing a large cylinder of liquid with dry ice and snifting the vapor liberally. [1961, John Ransom Roebuck, Notebooks, Ca.1901-61, pages 34–35:]
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the pipeline, by which air or vapour is snifted from the pipeline as the liquid level falls by the approach of an air pocket, through a float-operated valve to a catch tank fitted with a flame trap vent. [1965, Gas Journal - Volumes 323-324, page 354:]