| drawer | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. drawer | a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out. |
| ~ buffet, sideboard, counter | a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers. |
| ~ chest of drawers, dresser, bureau, chest | furniture with drawers for keeping clothes. |
| ~ chiffonier, commode | a tall elegant chest of drawers. |
| ~ container | any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another). |
| ~ desk | a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments. |
| ~ lock | a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed. |
| ~ storage space | the area in any structure that provides space for storage. |
| n. (person) | 2. drawer | the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else. |
| ~ money dealer, money handler | a person who receives or invests or pays out money. |
| n. (person) | 3. draftsman, drawer | an artist skilled at drawing. |
| ~ artist, creative person | a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination. |
| ~ cartoonist | a person who draws cartoons. |
| ~ pavement artist | someone who draws on the pavement with colored chalks (hoping that passers-by will give them money). |
| ~ sketcher | someone who draws sketches. |
| snuff out | | |
| v. (change) | 1. extinguish, snuff out | put an end to; kill.; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children" |
| ~ do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish | terminate, end, or take out.; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" |
| ~ stamp | destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot.; "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny" |
| ~ put out, smother | deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion.; "smother fires" |
| v. (weather) | 2. blow out, extinguish, quench, snuff out | put out, as of fires, flames, or lights.; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles" |
| ~ stub | extinguish by crushing.; "stub out your cigarette now" |
| ~ douse, put out | put out, as of a candle or a light.; "Douse the lights" |
| ~ black out | obliterate or extinguish.; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived" |
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