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Meaning of Snuffing | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The act by which a candle, etc. is snuffed out.
  2. The act of one who, or that which, snuffs or makes a low sniffing sound.

Equivalents

العربية الشمّ
Suomi nuuskaaminen

Examples

“Then there were frantic snuffings under the doors, and a general agitation.”
“It was early on the fifteenth day that I heard a curious familiar sequence of sounds in the kitchen, and, listening, identified it as the snuffing and scratching of a dog.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Snuffle Snuffled Snuffler Snuffles Snuffleupagus snuffliness

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