snuff out
Verb
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Verb
- (transitive) To extinguish, to stop a process, to kill, to rub out.
- 2017 August 25, Aukkarapon Niyomyat & Panarat Thepgumpanat, "Thai junta seeks Yingluck's arrest as former PM skips court verdict ↗", in reuters.com, Reuters
- The verdict against Yingluck is widely seen as having the potential to reignite tensions, though the junta has largely snuffed out open opposition.
- 2017 August 25, Aukkarapon Niyomyat & Panarat Thepgumpanat, "Thai junta seeks Yingluck's arrest as former PM skips court verdict ↗", in reuters.com, Reuters
- (transitive) To kill a living being.
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