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stubs out

stubs out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 stubs out

What is stubs out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Stubs out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stub out.

Words near stubs out in the dictionary

  1. Stubičke Toplice
  2. stubless
  3. stublike
  4. stubly
  5. stubs
  6. stubs out
  7. Stubshaw Cross
  8. stubtail
  9. stubtails
  10. STUC
  11. stucchi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stubs 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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