Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä

Synonyymit

Ääntäminen

Määritelmät

Substantiivit

  1. Finely ground or pulverized tobacco intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
  2. The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which has to be periodically removed).
  3. Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue; see also snus.
  4. (obsolete) Leavings in a glass after drinking; heel-taps.
  5. A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
  6. (attributive) Pertaining to a form of pornographic film which involves someone's actually being murdered.
  7. The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
  8. Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
  9. (obsolete) Snot, mucus.
  10. (obsolete) Smell, scent, odour.

Verbit

  1. To inhale through the nose.
  2. To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
  3. To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence.
  4. (obsolete) To trim the burnt part of a candle wick.
  5. (slang) To kill a person; to snuff out.

Esimerkit

  • Dry snuffs are often adulterated with quicklime, and moist snuffs, as rappee, with ammonia, hellebore, pearl-ash, etc.
  • He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite.
  • Napoleon paced to and fro in silence, occasionally snuffing at the ground.
  • If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup.
  • his memory stinks like the snuff of a candle when it is put out […].
  • Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff?
  • The dimness of the light her candle emitted made her turn to it in alarm; but there was no danger of its sudden extinction, it had yet some hours to burn; and that she might not have any greater difficulty in distinguishing the writing than what its ancient date might occasion, she hastily snuffed it. Alas! it was snuffed and extinguished in one.
  • His memory stinks like the snuff of a candle when it is put out.

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektisnuffed
Imperfektisnuffed
Partisiipin preesenssnuffing
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesenssnuffs