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stubbing out

stubbing out is the present participle and gerund 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 stubbing out

What is stubbing out the present participle and gerund of?
Stubbing out is the present participle and gerund of stub out.

Words near stubbing out in the dictionary

  1. stubbify
  2. stubbifying
  3. stubbily
  4. stubbiness
  5. stubbing
  6. stubbing out
  7. stubbings
  8. Stubbington
  9. Stubbingtons
  10. Stubbins
  11. stubble

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stubbing 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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