What's the difference between scuffing and snuffing?
Scuffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scuff
Example Sentences:
(1) What a complete mess - a miscued shot, scuffed clearance, and uncontrolled toe-punt as he fell - but a decisive mess all the same."
(2) He is famously fastidious, too, once refusing to give a fellow player a lift after training in case he scuffed the leather seats of the new Becksmobile.
(3) The Arsenal forward attempted a Panenka, scuffed it badly, and scored anyway as the goalkeeper dived to his left.
(4) Moffat, who likes a pop from distance, winds up and drives a scuffed shot past the Colorado post.
(5) A case report is described of a patient who developed severe hypercalcemia during slow continuous arterio-venous ultrafiltration (SCUF).
(6) Danny Welbeck rolled the ball to Wayne Rooney who was in acres of space just 12 yards from the Bayern goal, but the Manchester United No10 scuffed a shot wide when he should have done much better.
(7) By analyzing the scuffed surfaces of the metatarsal bars, the physician can determine whether or not the bars are firm and thick enough and in the proper position to relieve and divert pressure from the metatarsal heads.
(8) 3.34pm BST 34 mins: Brilliant build up play by Suarez outside the box, as he drops a shoulder to create some space, then shimmies past one defender, but his left-footed shot is scuffed and straight to Krul for an easy save.
(9) The Celtic full-back Adam Matthews, allegedly a transfer target for Swansea City, reached the byline after a surging run down the right flank but he undermined his efforts with a scuffed cutback which the goalkeeper Dusan Kuciak comfortably gathered.
(10) At least it would have been forgivable had he managed to hit the target, instead of scuffing a tame effort the wrong side of Mignolet’s right-hand upright.
(11) Open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, plus Sun noon-6pm in July and August The Oxford Bar Photograph: Alamy When the Inspector Rebus ITV series was relaunched in 2006, with Ken Stott stepping into the scuffed brogues of John Hannah, there was a feeling they had finally got the right man to play Ian Rankin's bruised copper.
(12) He was teed up by Gervinho, who had put the fear into Colombia with another dribble, but Kalou scuffed straight at Ospina from 18 yards.
(13) As it was, United were lucky Arnautovic, having scored a beauty, could not make it 3-0 after he ran clear on 36 minutes and a traumatic first half for Van Gaal was summed up by Daley Blind trying a cross from the left, scuffing it out of play and ending up on his backside.
(14) After a mild bout of playground scuffing, the ball's eventually hacked clear, Heskey playing a big part, Peter McGushin will be no doubt pleased to hear.
(15) Moyes was not the only person to put his hands to his head in disbelief when Osman, under no pressure, scuffed his shot wide.
(16) Iatrogenic damage to the temporomandibular joint included scuffing of the articular surfaces of the glenoid fossa and articular eminence (31.8%), scuffing of the condylar articular surface (9%), one disc perforation (4.5%) and one perforation of the medial capsule (4.5%).
(17) Khodorkovsky, wearing a scuffed black jacket, and Lebedev, in a white tracksuit top, whispered to each other inside the enclosed dock and ignored the judge as he said the court had established their guilt.
(18) In this way, Scarlett's death might serve a purpose, finally puncturing that quasi-colonial arrogance so endemic in a certain stratum of UK society - that our children can go off anywhere and somehow their Britishness, class and a scuffed copy of Lonely Planet will protect them, decades of increasingly cultured and sophisticated holidays having resulted in a generation of nomad-naifs who seem to think that the entire world is just one big, safe, fluffy Centre Parc, policed by the friendly ghost of Michael Palin.
(19) Then Sterling slipped Bony in and he scuffed a shot wide.
(20) True to character, they rallied with only a scuffed shot preventing Houghton from scoring and Germany’s Tabea Kemme surviving English claims that she should have conceded a handball penalty.
Snuffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snuff
Example Sentences:
(1) Bojan Krkic had been snuffed out in his central role for Stoke and Hughes’s tweaks would have paid off if Diouf’s finishing had been more incisive.
(2) But again, many in the industry are concerned the recovery could be snuffed out, with the National Federation of Builders pointing to threats to the housbuilding as mortgage lending stagnates.
(3) There was no checking their charges into space – they needed snuffing out – while the impressive Busquets collected unchallenged in central areas and shifted the ball on, either up to Messi or across the field from one side to the other.
(4) Like Rona Jaffe's novel of the 50s, The Best of Everything – a book that Rakoff loves and reread before she started work on My Salinger Year – it is concerned with what it feels like to move to the big city, to take on your first job, and to struggle to survive on a tiny salary when all the while your dreams are seemingly being snuffed out at every turn, and your love life is spiralling into muddle and mayhem.
(5) Lined up, five by five, rows and rows of dead bodies before my eyes, already shot, lives snuffed out in a single bloody instant.
(6) The brief flurry of liberal street protest in 2011 and 2012 was ruthlessly snuffed out by the Kremlin, and many have suggested that, far from a liberal revolution, the most likely revolt in Russia is the “senseless and merciless” Russian uprising of which Alexander Pushkin wrote.
(7) No: she's eagerly looking forward to other premature snuffings.
(8) Atletico win a throw deep in Barca's half but their intricate passing is snuffed out and, after a little halfway line tangle between several players, the referee decides that's enough.
(9) They were too reliant on Dimitri Payet, allowing Leicester to focus on snuffing out the Frenchman’s threat, and ended the game with 10 men when Adrián was sent off in stoppage time for a reckless foul on Jamie Vardy.
(10) Queens Park Rangers where they had surrendered a 2-0 lead but their slim hopes of beating the champions were snuffed out in the first 34 minutes.
(11) The bitter dispute over who is Karzai's rightful successor has alarmed Afghanistan's US and western benefactors, creating a political crisis that risks undermining more than a decade of efforts to build a government capable of fighting the Taliban on its own and snuffing out terrorist groups like al-Qaida.
(12) In the new alt-reality bubble, negative information simply no longer penetrates; gaffes and scandals can be snuffed out, ignored, or spun; counternarratives can be launched.
(13) Tokyo turmoil: race to rule world’s largest city mired in sex scandal and misogyny Olympic flame snuffed out by protesters Striking teachers managed to extinguish the Olympic torch relay after it entered Rio de Janeiro and the runner carrying it had to be escorted to safety.
(14) Cameron and Osborne inherited a growing economy in 2010 and snuffed out recovery with savage cuts and tax increases.
(15) "Though the challenge of terrorism was and is very real, the sectarianism of the Maliki government snuffed out what was a genuine opportunity to build a cohesive Iraq.
(16) Stephenson scored with 1:31 left to make it 99-90, but James snuffed out any comeback hopes right there with a three-point play.
(17) Four blue shirts swarm around him, the danger snuffed out.
(18) Markets had fallen sharply on Tuesday after the prospect of a Greek referendum snuffed out any optimism about the rescue package eurozone leaders had announced last week to bolster banks by €106bn and add extra firepower to Europe's bailout fund.
(19) Obviously there's only one way this can end: the Nationals win by snuffing a late-inning Cardinals rally when they turn a double-play assisted by an umpire who fails to call the infield fly rule.
(20) Negredo might have scored a couple of minutes earlier than he did when a strong run and measured pass from Fernandino gave him a sight of goal that a combination of Skrtel and Mignolet snuffed out.