Extinguish, put a sudden end to, as in Three young lives were snuffed out in that automobile accident. This usage alludes to snuff in the sense of “put out a candle by pinching the wick,” an area itself called snuff from the late 1300s on. [

What is another word for snuffed out?

In this page you can discover 25 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for snuff out, like: waste, blow-away, bump off, chill, dispatch, dispose of, do-away-with, do in, dust, grease and hit.

What does SNUF stand for?

Also in the 16th century, the inhaling of powdered tobacco was practiced by the Dutch, who referred to it as snuf, short for snuftabak (from the words meaning “sniff” and “tobacco”).