Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to snuff
Participle: snuffed
Gerund: snuffing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | snuff |
| you | snuff |
| he;she;it | snuffs |
| we | snuff |
| you | snuff |
| they | snuff |
Perfect
| I | have snuffed |
| you | have snuffed |
| he;she;it | has snuffed |
| we | have snuffed |
| you | have snuffed |
| they | have snuffed |
Past
| I | snuffed |
| you | snuffed |
| he;she;it | snuffed |
| we | snuffed |
| you | snuffed |
| they | snuffed |
Pluperfect
| I | had snuffed |
| you | had snuffed |
| he;she;it | had snuffed |
| we | had snuffed |
| you | had snuffed |
| they | had snuffed |
Future
| I | will snuff |
| you | will snuff |
| he;she;it | will snuff |
| we | will snuff |
| you | will snuff |
| they | will snuff |
Future Perfect
| I | will have snuffed |
| you | will have snuffed |
| he;she;it | will have snuffed |
| we | will have snuffed |
| you | will have snuffed |
| they | will have snuffed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | snuff |
| you | snuff |
| he;she;it | snuff |
| we | snuff |
| you | snuff |
| they | snuff |
Perfect
| I | have snuffed |
| you | have snuffed |
| he;she;it | have snuffed |
| we | have snuffed |
| you | have snuffed |
| they | have snuffed |
Imperfect
| I | snuffed |
| you | snuffed |
| he;she;it | snuffed |
| we | snuffed |
| you | snuffed |
| they | snuffed |
Pluperfect
| I | had snuffed |
| you | had snuffed |
| he;she;it | had snuffed |
| we | had snuffed |
| you | had snuffed |
| they | had snuffed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would snuff |
| you | would snuff |
| he;she;it | would snuff |
| we | would snuff |
| you | would snuff |
| they | would snuff |
Perfect
| I | would have snuffed |
| you | would have snuffed |
| he;she;it | would have snuffed |
| we | would have snuffed |
| you | would have snuffed |
| they | would have snuffed |
Imperative
| you | snuff |
| we | Let's snuff |
| you | snuff |
Verbs conjugated like 'snuff'
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 'snuff'
scuff,
sluff,
sniff,
snurf,
stuff,
besnuff,
bluff,
buff,
chuff,
cuff,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to put to death; to extinguish life.
- annihilate, bag, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bury, cack, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, lay waste to, make a way with, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put out of one's misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, smash, smite, squash, stiff, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, kill, torpedo, waste, wipe out, wreck
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Late Middle English, from Middle Dutch snuffen (“to snuff, sniff, snuffle”).
2. Related to Dutch snuiven (“to sniff”), Middle Low German snûve (“pose, head-cold”), German Schnupfen (“head-cold”). The noun is probably from Dutch snuf (“snuff”), an abbreviation of snuftabak, snuiftabak (“snuff”). Related to sniff (compare Dutch snuffen (“snuff”), German schnupf (“snuff”), French schnouff (“junk”)). See: Dutch '
snuiven', German, old spelling '
Schnupfen', Dutch '
snuffen'.
Verbs referencing "snuff"
Dutch
snuffen.
Sample Sentences
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[...] The great man poured out a big tumbler half full of raw spirits, and gulped it down without a word. The little man stood tiptoe, and putting his head first to one side and then the other, and snuffing considerately in the directions of the various bottles, ordered at last a mint julep, in a thin and quivering voice, and with an air of great circumspection. When poured out, he took it and looked [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)