Any specific words for using pressure to stop something from burning?

I am Team **Stub Out** on this one. You're effectively pressing and twisting the stub end of the incense against a surface to extinguish it.

I would say snuffing

For an incense stick or a cigarette, you “stub it out” by grinding or pressing the end on to something solid.

Yeah I think you can use smother and I think snuff. “He smothered the oil fire with a lid.” “She snuffed out the fire with a kitchen rag.”

Tamping out.

It's not the pressure that puts out the incense. You're removing its oxygen, by smothering it.

There are a few verbs you can use for: Extinguish - to cause something (eg an incense stick) to stop burning: If you pick up the stick and move it against something, you can use verbs like: stub out / snub out / tamp [out] / knock out … If you cover the incense stick with something and apply pressure, you can use verbs like smother / suffocate / snuff out / stifle. However, there imply that you stop burning by cutting off oxygen. See also choke / blanket / suppress There are verbs like dowse / quench which imply using water. For more violent actions you can stamp out / beat out You can pinch out a light with your fingers. Then there are verbs which don’t specify like put out / quell

I suggest a search on fire science use pressure to extinguish fire to see how pressure is indeed used to guide and control a fire. There are some abbreviations and specialized terms. Thanks to the commenters who raised the question of pressure vs smother.

Dousing and murking it.

 I think the word you're looking for might be "snuff out"? Like, if you press the burning end of an incense stick against an ashtray to stop it from burning, you're snuffing it out. I remember getting confused with similar words too like "extinguish" is more for fires, and "stub out" is usually for cigarettes. But for incense, "snuff out" sounds right to me.

smothering? Like, "I smothered the end of the incense to extinguish it."

Smother. You smother it. Snuff out is also good. Snuff out a flame is putting something to choke it of oxygen.

I'd go for "to stub out," as in stubbing out a cigarette: [https://crossidiomas.com/stub-out/](https://crossidiomas.com/stub-out/)