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stubbed out

stubbed out is the simple past and past participle of stub out.

Meaning of stub out

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.

Questions about stubbed out

What is stubbed out the simple past and past participle of?
Stubbed out is the simple past and past participle of stub out.

Words near stubbed out in the dictionary

  1. stub-tailed morphos
  2. stubbard
  3. stubbards
  4. Stubbe
  5. stubbed
  6. stubbed out
  7. stubbedness
  8. stubber
  9. stubbers
  10. Stubbes
  11. stubbie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stubbed out (page history and authors); stub out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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