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snuff

verb as in destroy

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A sharp increase in mortgage rates in 2022 snuffed out what had been a housing boom.

Take the 2019 docuseries “Don’t F**k with Cats,” which includes gratuitous shots of animal violence and shots of a real snuff film.

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"For a young girl to die in that way, her life snuffed out at the age of 15, it's just too sad for words."

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With Frankenstein, he worries he’ll jinx the monster by talking too much about him, snuffing out the ineffable thing that he says fueled his performance.

Danish officials had shut down international flights from Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, because its training for passenger security screening wasn’t up to snuff.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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