「〜を消す、弾圧する、鎮圧する」。
snuffは、「（犬が）クンクンと臭いをかぐ」という動詞で使われますが、ここでは、 outという副詞を伴って、動詞句として「押さえる、消す」という意味で使われています。
本日のGuardianの記事、'BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill likely to cost more than Exxon Valdez'から。
'Britain's biggest oil company was tonight facing an environmental disaster expected to cost more than the Exxon Valdez tanker spill as thousands of tonnes of floating oil began to reach the US Gulf coast.
As several coastal states declared a state of emergency and dispatched clean-up crews, BP was desperately trying to stem the flow of crude from its damaged offshore platform and to snuff out a growing political storm that has wiped billions of pounds off its share price'.
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