Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to snuff it
Participle: snuffed it
Gerund: snuffing it
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | snuff it |
| you | snuff it |
| he;she;it | snuffs it |
| we | snuff it |
| you | snuff it |
| they | snuff it |
Perfect
| I | have snuffed it |
| you | have snuffed it |
| he;she;it | has snuffed it |
| we | have snuffed it |
| you | have snuffed it |
| they | have snuffed it |
Past
| I | snuffed it |
| you | snuffed it |
| he;she;it | snuffed it |
| we | snuffed it |
| you | snuffed it |
| they | snuffed it |
Pluperfect
| I | had snuffed it |
| you | had snuffed it |
| he;she;it | had snuffed it |
| we | had snuffed it |
| you | had snuffed it |
| they | had snuffed it |
Future
| I | will snuff it |
| you | will snuff it |
| he;she;it | will snuff it |
| we | will snuff it |
| you | will snuff it |
| they | will snuff it |
Future Perfect
| I | will have snuffed it |
| you | will have snuffed it |
| he;she;it | will have snuffed it |
| we | will have snuffed it |
| you | will have snuffed it |
| they | will have snuffed it |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | snuff it |
| you | snuff it |
| he;she;it | snuff it |
| we | snuff it |
| you | snuff it |
| they | snuff it |
Perfect
| I | have snuffed it |
| you | have snuffed it |
| he;she;it | have snuffed it |
| we | have snuffed it |
| you | have snuffed it |
| they | have snuffed it |
Imperfect
| I | snuffed it |
| you | snuffed it |
| he;she;it | snuffed it |
| we | snuffed it |
| you | snuffed it |
| they | snuffed it |
Pluperfect
| I | had snuffed it |
| you | had snuffed it |
| he;she;it | had snuffed it |
| we | had snuffed it |
| you | had snuffed it |
| they | had snuffed it |
Conditional
Present
| I | would snuff it |
| you | would snuff it |
| he;she;it | would snuff it |
| we | would snuff it |
| you | would snuff it |
| they | would snuff it |
Perfect
| I | would have snuffed it |
| you | would have snuffed it |
| he;she;it | would have snuffed it |
| we | would have snuffed it |
| you | would have snuffed it |
| they | would have snuffed it |
Imperative
| you | snuff it |
| we | Let's snuff it |
| you | snuff it |
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)