1. [verb] (transitive) to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench
2. [verb] (transitive) to destroy or abolish something
3. [verb] (transitive) to obscure or eclipse something
4. [verb] (transitive) (psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex
5. [verb] (transitive) (literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction
6. [verb] Put an end to; kill; 'The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children'.
7. [verb] Put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; 'Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained'; 'quench the flames'; 'snuff out the candles'.
8. [verb] Extinguish by crushing; 'stub out your cigar'.
9. [verb] Terminate, end, or take out; 'Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics'; 'Socialism extinguished these archaic customs'; 'eliminate my debts'.
10. [verb] Kill in large numbers; 'the plague wiped out an entire population'.
