Another word for snuff | Synonyms for snuff

Another word for snuff

verb

To perceive with the olfactory sense:

nose, scent, smell, sniff, whiff. Idiom: catch (or get) a whiff of. See smells

phrasal verb snuff out

To cause to stop burning or giving light:
douse, extinguish, put out, quench. See continue
To destroy all traces of:
abolish, annihilate, blot out, clear, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, kill¹, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root¹ (out or up), rub out, stamp out, uproot, wipe out. Idioms: do away with, make an end of, put an end to. See help, make

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Another pretext would be her snuff, which would seem too dry or too damp or not rubbed fine enough.
Maybe she decided to snuff him out, to keep him quiet.
The tobacco best suited for snuff-making Snuff.
The manufacture of snuff is the most complex, tedious and difficult undertaking of the tobacco manufacture, but it is now of but little ff importance.
In height, the slim legs, the large turned-in feet, the shrill piercing voice; but almost every one will remember, from Croker's Boswell, Colman's account of the great historian " tapping his snuff-box, smirking and smiling, and rounding his periods " from that mellifluous mouth.

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