"snuff out" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "snuffs out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snuffing out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snuffed out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snuffed out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "snuff out (third-person singular simple present snuffs out, present participle snuffing out, simple past and past participle snuffed out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "86 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"out\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:",
          "text": "Elmander's lovely flick nearly set Taylor free inside the box but, this time, Boswinga reacted well to snuff out any real danger.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "2017 August 25, Aukkarapon Niyomyat & Panarat Thepgumpanat, \"Thai junta seeks Yingluck's arrest as former PM skips court verdict\", in reuters.com, Reuters\nThe verdict against Yingluck is widely seen as having the potential to reignite tensions, though the junta has largely snuffed out open opposition."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To extinguish, to stop a process, to kill, to rub out."
      ],
      "id": "en-snuff_out-en-verb-GiPVs73n",
      "links": [
        [
          "extinguish",
          "extinguish"
        ],
        [
          "rub out",
          "rub out"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To extinguish, to stop a process, to kill, to rub out."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "word": "snuff film"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To kill a living being."
      ],
      "id": "en-snuff_out-en-verb-x6G4Fka~",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To kill a living being."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "snuff out"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"out\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "snuffs out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snuffing out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snuffed out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snuffed out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "snuff film"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:",
          "text": "Elmander's lovely flick nearly set Taylor free inside the box but, this time, Boswinga reacted well to snuff out any real danger.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "2017 August 25, Aukkarapon Niyomyat & Panarat Thepgumpanat, \"Thai junta seeks Yingluck's arrest as former PM skips court verdict\", in reuters.com, Reuters\nThe verdict against Yingluck is widely seen as having the potential to reignite tensions, though the junta has largely snuffed out open opposition."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To extinguish, to stop a process, to kill, to rub out."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "extinguish",
          "extinguish"
        ],
        [
          "rub out",
          "rub out"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To extinguish, to stop a process, to kill, to rub out."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To kill a living being."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To kill a living being."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "snuff out"
}