snuff

[ US /ˈsnəf/ ]
[ UK /snˈʌf/ ]
VERB
  1. sniff or smell inquiringly
  2. inhale (something) through the nose
    snuff coke
ADJECTIVE
  1. snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown
NOUN
  1. the charred portion of a candlewick
  2. a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time
  3. sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
  4. finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose
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How To Use snuff In A Sentence

  • Of course, it was snuffed out because Mars is tectonically dead, so the recycling of chemicals that you get on Earth which keeps things going and supplies the surface biosphere would have actually ceased on Mars a lot earlier.
  • However, I took the risk of putting a hand close to a yowling muzzle and was greeted with a cold nose and a non-committal snuffle before the full-on baying started again.
  • So he entered and going up to the candles which burnt in the tent snuffed them and sprinkled levigated henbane on the wicks; after which he withdrew and waited without the marquee, till the smoke of the burning henbane reached The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Talking of death, is the landline telephone about to snuff it? Times, Sunday Times
  • If you visit the lowest terrace (called Canada) you may be interested to see an area of the extremely rare asarabacca plant, used in the making of snuff.
  • Such "polytobacco use" includes cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, snuff, and imported products such as kreteks, which are sometimes called clove cigarettes and usually contain tobacco, cloves, and other ingredients, according to a report in the Aug. 6 issue of MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians
  • He snuffled, dark hair damp against my neck, his mouth rooting to take hold of my collarbone. Brush of Darkness
  • But all of that stands to be snuffed out, they say there, if this security situation is not brought under control rapidly, and if the reconstruction is not sped up markedly and very soon.
  • Dentex and rainbow-colored wrasse snuffle the white sand below, stirring up a meal, while tiger-striped gobies lay among the rocks, waiting to snap the smaller fish up in turn. The Alluring Remoteness of Karpathos
  • A pinch of snuff may be placed between the cheek and the gum or inhaled into the nostrils.
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