Definition of "snuffed" [snuffed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of snuff. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "In the MaybeArrow, if an earlier computation throws a Nothing, then later computations are still allowed to perform side effects, although their outputs are snuffed, which is the behavior I want."
• "While apartheid as a system was snuffed out in South Africa, it has survived as a descriptor that is deployed, in the main, by the bitterest detractors of Israel, but is arguably more relevant in the case of another Middle Eastern country: Bahrain."
• "Like the unfortunate 16 people in an ER snuffed out when one of his minions unleashes a toxic gas."