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Snub

noun
/snʌb/
Word Frequency: 0.4

Definitions

1.nounA deliberate affront or slight.
"I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub."
2.nounA sudden checking of a cable or rope.
3.nounA knot; a protuberance; a snag.
4.verbTo slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
5.verbTo turn down; to dismiss.
"He snubbed my offer of help."
6.verbTo check; to reprimand.
7.verbTo stub out (a cigarette etc).
8.verbTo halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
9.verbTo clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
10.adjectiveConspicuously short.
"a snub-nosed revolver"
11.adjectiveOf the nose: flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
12.adjective(of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.

Synonyms

cut someone coldcut someone deadgive someone the cold shoulderturn the cold shoulder on someoneshortcutbrush offrepulserepelrebuffcold shoulderdisregard

Rhymes With

squibclubstubscrubdrubrubhubgrub
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