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