snuff
Speech parts
1. snuff - Noun
2. snuff - Verb
3. snuff - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not.
To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of.
To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff.
To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.
To inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses.
To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense.
The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.
Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once.
Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose.
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Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.
Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.
Never burn your fingers to snuff another man's candle.
Snuff at a wake is fine if there's noboby sneezing over the snuff box.
Win or lose, there's always huyperian beetle snuff.