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stub out

stub out verb: to extinguish (a cigar, cigarette) by crushing the tip.

Verb

stub out (third-person singular simple present stubs out, present participle stubbing out, simple past and past participle stubbed out)

  1. (transitive) To extinguish (a cigar, cigarette) by crushing the tip.
    • He stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray and went back inside.
    Synonyms:
    snub
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To eradicate.

Synonyms of stub out

Forms of stub out

third-person singular presentstubs out
present participlestubbing out
past participlestubbed out
paststubbed out

Questions about stub out

What does stub out mean?
Stub out means to extinguish (a cigar, cigarette) by crushing the tip.
What part of speech is stub out?
Stub out is a verb.
What is the past tense of stub out?
The past tense of stub out is stubbed out.

Words near stub out in the dictionary

  1. stub iron
  2. stub mortise
  3. stub mortises
  4. stub nail
  5. stub nails
  6. stub out
  7. stub twist
  8. stub-tail
  9. stub-tailed morpho
  10. stub-tailed morphos
  11. stubbard

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