snuff out

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	snuff out - put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children" extinguish do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" stamp - destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot; "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny" put out, smother - deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires"
	2.	snuff out - put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles" blow out, extinguish, quench stub - extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigarette now" douse, put out - put out, as of a candle or a light; "Douse the lights" black out - obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived"