Übersetzungen für „snuff out“ im Englisch » Deutsch-Wörterbuch

snuff out VERB trans

1. snuff out (extinguish):

to snuff out ⇆ sth

etw auslöschen

to snuff out ashes/candles

glühende Asche/Kerzen löschen

2. snuff out übtr (end):

to snuff out ⇆ sth

etw Dat ein Ende bereiten

to snuff out one's hopes

seine Hoffnungen begraben

to snuff out sb's hopes

jds Hoffnungen zunichtemachen

3. snuff out Am (die):

to snuff one's life out

sein Leben aushauchen geh

Beispiele aus dem PONS Wörterbuch (redaktionell geprüft)

to snuff out sb's hopes

jds Hoffnungen zunichtemachen

to snuff one's life out

sein Leben aushauchen geh

to snuff out one's hopes

seine Hoffnungen begraben

to snuff out ashes/candles

glühende Asche/Kerzen löschen

Einsprachige Beispiele (nicht von der PONS Redaktion geprüft)

Englisch

Though opposition to fracking isn't likely to snuff out the boom, it could limit the industry's ability to boost production.

www.theglobeandmail.com

When necessary, though, he was on hand to snuff out the danger.

www.goal.com

The bishop would then ring a bell, close a holy book, and he and the assisting priests would snuff out their candles by dashing them to the ground.

en.wikipedia.org

A serious viral infection, followed by a car accident that left her with debilitating injuries, threatened to snuff out that future.

www.ottawacommunitynews.com

The country, it seems, suffers from a window-shopping mentality that has been hard to snuff out.

www.ft.com

Rather, it is the unpopular idea, both throughout history and still today, that society most often seeks to snuff out and to censor.

www.spiked-online.com

He would have made sure he brought the man down first and foremost because that was the only way to snuff out the danger.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Stiles was deployed in the middle of the park to snuff out the flair and peril of creative opponents, and this he did with much success.

en.wikipedia.org

Still, security's never far from muscling in to snuff out japes.

www.nzherald.co.nz

If they are so frustrated by lack of democratic freedoms, who do they constantly declare their intention to snuff out those freedoms?

www.dailymail.co.uk