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Past tense of snuff

regular verb

The past tense of snuff is snuffed. The past participle is also snuffed.

Forms of snuff

Base form (V1)snuff /snʌf/
Past tense (V2)snuffed
Past participle (V3)snuffed
Present participlesnuffing
Third person singularsnuffs

Snuffed in a sentence

  • That cat must have been twenty years old when he finally snuffed it.From the entry snuff it
  • He sighed, snuffed out his cigarette, and got back to work.From the entry snuff out
  • He sighed, snuffed out his wish to walk right out the door, and got back to work.From the entry snuff out
  • The risk of fire was an ever-present danger, and every night at bedtime they performed the ritual of checking that every candle and lantern had been snuffed out.From the entry snuff out
  • I heard he made it all the way down off the mountain before he snuffed it."1994, Pinckney Benedict, Dogs of God, page 204. From the entry take a licking and keep on ticking

Meaning of snuff

  1. noun Finely ground or pulverized tobacco (or other plant derivative) intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
  2. noun Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue.
  3. noun A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.

Full definition of snuff

Questions about the past tense of snuff

What is the past tense of snuff?
The past tense of snuff is snuffed.
What is the past participle of snuff?
The past participle of snuff is snuffed.
Is snuff a regular or irregular verb?
Snuff is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snuff (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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