Meaning of "snuff" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SNUFF

Probably from Middle Dutch snuffen to snuffle, ultimately of imitative origin.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SNUFF

snuff  [snʌf]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SNUFF

Snuff is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb snuff in English.

WHAT DOES SNUFF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Snuff

Snuff may refer to: ▪ Snuff, fine-ground tobacco, intended for consumption by being inhaled or sniffed into the nose ▪ Moist snuff or dipping tobacco ▪ Creamy snuff, an Indian tobacco paste ▪ Herbal smokeless tobacco ▪ Snuff film, a type of film that shows an actual murder ▪ Snuff, a 1976 splatter film ▪ "Snuff", an episode of the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ▪ Snuff, a 2008 novel by Chuck Palahniuk ▪ Snuff, a 2011 Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett In music: ▪ Snuff, British band ▪ Snuff, Virginia-based band active in the early 1980s ▪ "Snuff", a song by Slipknot ▪ "Snuff", a song by Slayer from World Painted Blood ▪ Snuff Garrett, American record producer...

Definition of snuff in the English dictionary

The first definition of snuff in the dictionary is to inhale through the nose. Other definition of snuff is when intr, often foll by at to examine by sniffing. Snuff is also an act or the sound of snuffing.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SNUFF

PRESENT

Present

I snuff

you snuff

he/she/it snuffs

we snuff

you snuff

they snuff

Present continuous

I am snuffing

you are snuffing

he/she/it is snuffing

we are snuffing

you are snuffing

they are snuffing

Present perfect

I have snuffed

you have snuffed

he/she/it has snuffed

we have snuffed

you have snuffed

they have snuffed

Present perfect continuous

I have been snuffing

you have been snuffing

he/she/it has been snuffing

we have been snuffing

you have been snuffing

they have been snuffing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I snuffed

you snuffed

he/she/it snuffed

we snuffed

you snuffed

they snuffed

Past continuous

I was snuffing

you were snuffing

he/she/it was snuffing

we were snuffing

you were snuffing

they were snuffing

Past perfect

I had snuffed

you had snuffed

he/she/it had snuffed

we had snuffed

you had snuffed

they had snuffed

Past perfect continuous

I had been snuffing

you had been snuffing

he/she/it had been snuffing

we had been snuffing

you had been snuffing

they had been snuffing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will snuff

you will snuff

he/she/it will snuff

we will snuff

you will snuff

they will snuff

Future continuous

I will be snuffing

you will be snuffing

he/she/it will be snuffing

we will be snuffing

you will be snuffing

they will be snuffing

Future perfect

I will have snuffed

you will have snuffed

he/she/it will have snuffed

we will have snuffed

you will have snuffed

they will have snuffed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been snuffing

you will have been snuffing

he/she/it will have been snuffing

we will have been snuffing

you will have been snuffing

they will have been snuffing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would snuff

you would snuff

he/she/it would snuff

we would snuff

you would snuff

they would snuff

Conditional continuous

I would be snuffing

you would be snuffing

he/she/it would be snuffing

we would be snuffing

you would be snuffing

they would be snuffing

Conditional perfect

I would have snuff

you would have snuff

he/she/it would have snuff

we would have snuff

you would have snuff

they would have snuff

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been snuffing

you would have been snuffing

he/she/it would have been snuffing

we would have been snuffing

you would have been snuffing

they would have been snuffing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you snuff
we let´s snuff
you snuff

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to snuff

Past participle

snuffed

Present Participle

snuffing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

TRANSLATION OF SNUFF

Find out the translation of snuff to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of snuff from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «snuff» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 鼻烟
• Translator English - Spanish: rapé
• English: snuff
• Translator English - Hindi: नास
• Translator English - Arabic: السعوط
• Translator English - Russian: табак
• Translator English - Portuguese: rapé
• Translator English - Bengali: নাস
• Translator English - French: tabac à priser
• Translator English - Malay: Snuff
• Translator English - German: Schnupftabak
• Translator English - Japanese: かぎたばこ
• Translator English - Korean: 코담배
• Translator English - Javanese: Snuff
• Translator English - Vietnamese: hít thuốc
• Translator English - Tamil: மூக்குப்பொடிப்
• Translator English - Marathi: धूर्त
• Translator English - Turkish: enfiye
• Translator English - Italian: tabacco da fiuto
• Translator English - Polish: tabaka
• Translator English - Ukrainian: тютюн
• Translator English - Romanian: prizat
• Translator English - Greek: ταμπάκο
• Translator English - Afrikaans: snuif
• Translator English - Swedish: snus
• Translator English - Norwegian: snus

6 QUOTES WITH «SNUFF»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word snuff.

1

Alvin Ailey

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

2

Douglas Hofstadter

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

3

James Howell

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

4

Michael Huffington

While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naive as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights.

5

Jean Hanff Korelitz

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.

6

Gregorio Sablan

We in Congress must take action to keep assault weapons and high-capacity clips out of the hands of those who are so dangerous or deranged or deluded that they can snuff out the life of innocents on a whim.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNUFF»

Discover the use of snuff in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to snuff and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Snuff

On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr 72, Mr 137 and Mr 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room.

Chuck Palahniuk, 2011

Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.

Terry Pratchett, 2011

Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction

That young man was Kurt Vonnegut. Bagombo Snuff Box collects Vonnegut's favourite stories from the postwar years that sharpened his dark, vaudevillian and quietly subversive voice.

Kurt Vonnegut, 2000

The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles

This book is produced in Japan with high quality to ensure the superb feel of the original edition. Each copy is hand-numbered.

Bob C. Stevens, 1976

Snuff

The revamped, restored edition.

Adam Huber, Eric Enck, 2009

Snuff

A marvellous tale of quick-wittedness - one of Quentin Blake's first picture books now reissued to be enjoyed by a whole new generation of children...

Quentin Blake, 2010

Chinese snuff bottles: from the sanctum of enlightened ...

For collectors of oriental art, this truly lavish production written by the leading expert in the field is packed with 735 colour pictures of beautiful artifacts.Chinese Snuff Bottles showcases in-depth the style, history and significance ...

Denis Low, 2007

Snuff

This Album traces the history of snuff and snufftaking, at its peak in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, explains how snuff was processed and describes snuffboxes and other collectables associated with the habit

Ursula Bourne, 1990

Sniff-Snuff-Snap!

A bossy old warthog tries to keep the other animals from using his waterhole.

‎2000

American Psycho

Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Bret Easton Ellis, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SNUFF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term snuff is used in the context of the following news items.

UPDATE 1-Swedish Match remains hopeful on US wet snuff status

STOCKHOLM, July 17 (Reuters) - Tobacco company Swedish Match expects U.S. regulators to decide in the coming months whether it can market its wet snuff ... «Reuters, Jul 15»

Youngstown judge sentences 3 adults for branding teen with snuff can

The three were charged with heating the lid of a snuff can and also using martial-arts darts to brand the teen on his buttocks in Struthers in suburban ... «fox8.com, Jul 15»

CORRECTED-UPDATE 1-Swedish Match key snus and snuff …

(Corrects snus margin consensus in bullet point and third paragraph to 40.8 pct from 40.1 pct). * Snus and snuff margin 38.2 pct vs consensus 40.8 pct. «Reuters, May 15»

A$AP Rocky Threatens To "Snuff" Someone In London

That remark comes as Rocky storms out of a London bagel shop after threatening to "snuff" some dudes who confront him. It's not clear what the beef was about ... «HotNewHipHop, Apr 15»

Dollar strength may snuff out Japan, Europe gains for US investors …

A rising U.S. dollar will most likely snuff out returns from holdings elsewhere, he argues. He is underweight investment-grade bonds and overweight high-yield ... «Reuters, Nov 14»

Children in Scotland have been filmed being murdered by …

CHILDREN in Scotland have been filmed being murdered by paedophiles in so-called 'snuff movies'. Two leading charities say they have spoken to victims of ... «Scottish Daily Record, Nov 14»

Smokey Mountain Herbal Snuff and Pouches Adds Shawn Michaels …

Having already been using Smokey Mountain Wintergreen Herbal Snuff, the Smokey Mountain and Shawn Michaels' partnership is a natural fit. With a lifestyle ... «PR Newswire, Oct 14»

The Butcher Brothers Round Out Cast for 'The Beginners Guide to …

Horror duo The Butcher Brothers have cast their upcoming film The Beginners Guide to Snuff, setting Joey Kern (Workaholics), Luke Edwards (The Wizard), Bree ... «Hollywood Reporter, Sep 14»

Wolff: The snuff film war

In the 1970s, a rumor rose to the level of urban myth that murders — actual murders as they were committed — were being filmed and distributed to a hardcore ... «USA TODAY, Aug 14»

Snuff and E-Cigs Are Not Harmless, Say Scientists

The researchers reviewed data on 2,474 heart attack survivors under 75 in Sweden who used snus (oral snuff) from 2005 to 2009. About 675 quit. During the ... «TIME, Jun 14»