Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: snuffed
IPA transcription: [sn'ʌft]
Usage examples
  • Suddenly snuffed out in the middle of ambitious schemes
  • 'Ah, deary me', said she, 'I thought so; it can't be me surely.' So she went to the straw-yard, and the calves wouldn't lick her, when they snuffed in the strong smell of tar.
  • 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 Ajib and his Princes and they fell to the ground like dead men.