What's the difference between snuffing and snuffling?
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.
Snuffling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snuffle
Example Sentences:
(1) The present results suggested that these P. multocida isolates were the causal agent of rabbits rhinitis (snuffles) in Japan.
(2) Inside was the world's biggest map, depicting all of New York state, laid out in sparkling terrazzo, across which troupes of acrobats and dancers would perform, and the animals of the kiddies' petting zoo would snuffle.
(3) In a double-blind study, diphenylpyraline (Lergobine) was given to 63 patients whose main symptoms were stuffiness of the nose, increased secretion of mucus, snuffling, sneezing and redness of the eyes.
(4) The younger infants had a higher incidence of jaundice and mortality, whereas joint swellings, skin rash, snuffles, anemia, and periosteal reaction visible in x-rays of long bones were typical findings among the older group.
(5) So, I will have to continue trudging down to one or other of the local hospitals for treatment, and get the snuffles, or worse, on the way.
(6) With silhouetted palms at sunset, capybaras bathing in streams, vivid birdlife and viscachas (a type of chinchilla) snuffling around the site at dusk, it’s a photographers’ paradise.
(7) "And Ben," notes his wife, indicating the spaniel snuffling at their feet.
(8) You are in the system, safe from the unregulated badlands of Nickelodeon and its oceans of advertising, the looping hours of Peppa Pig and American imports that run through the night so that other, feral children (not yours) can watch cartoons at 2am while snuffling from bowls of refined sugar.
(9) The other day I had a bit of a snuffle and Justine thought it wouldn’t be a good idea for me to go for a walk in Primrose Hill.
(10) The presence of "snuffles" has traditionally been ascribed, unproven, to an upper respiratory tract infection despite there being no other signs of an acute infection in the majority of infants with "snuffles".
(11) A counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE) test was applied to serotype 35 isolates of type D Pasteurella multocida recovered from 32 cases of atrophic rhinitis (in swine) and 3 cases of snuffles (in rabbits).
(12) She has some new bogeymen – shareholders – and is so determined they won't get a groat of her money, that she's sitting snuffling and shivering in her kitchen, by the hob, on the cusp of pneumonia, refusing to turn on her heating.
(13) The previously well-known snuffles, pseudoparalysis and bizarre radiological changes should now be brought to the attention of perhaps more than one generation of physicians who underwent their medical training at the time when the disease was a rarity.
(14) The presence of excess nasal mucus causing noisy nasal breathing with an obvious mucus discharge (snuffles) is a common problem in infants in the first three months of life.
(15) The results suggest that in some infants "snuffles" may be associated with impaired vasomotor control.
(16) Pigs snuffle at the detritus littering its margins.
(17) Four of fifty infants in the control group compared to 22 of 50 in the snuffles group demonstrated postural hypotension (Chi square 16.84, p less than 0.001).
(18) snuffles and being "chesty") in well infants during the first months of life with 32% of the control group having snuffles and 35% described as "chesty".
(19) At night, if I hear him snuffle or whimper in his cot, I sneak over using an iPhone as an impromptu light source so I can see if he needs resettling.
(20) Hepatic and splenic enlargement were present in 12 cases, and nine children had the "snuffles".