Keep and Snuff

Keep

Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.

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Snuff and keep are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Snuff" instead a verb "Keep".

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Snuff verb - To become aware of by means of the sense organs in the nose.

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Keep and snuff are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Snuff".

Nearby Words: snuffle, snuffled, snuffed, snuffing, snuffy

life	keep life	snuff life
hair	keep hair	snuff hair

Luck-Based Mission: As mentioned in the Unwinnable by Mistake example below, the level generator doesn't always keep up to snuff with path creation.

Source: Video Game / Spelunky
As badass as the crew are, even they know they won't survive if they keep the nuclear device they stole, because just about every military force in America would try to snuff them.

Source: Reality Ensues / Video Games
Snuff introduces a hermit who lives on Sybil's countryside property, because apparently having a hermit on one's land was once fashionable among the nobility and they like to keep up traditions.

Source: The Hermit

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