snuff out

Verb
  1. Put an end to;
    Kill (synset 200479148)
    "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
    is a type of: do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of - terminate, end, or take out
    subtypes:
    • stamp - destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot
    • put out, smother - deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
    same as: extinguish
  2. Put out, as of fires, flames, or lights (synset 202767855)
    "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"
    subtypes:
    same as: blow out, extinguish, quench

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