snub

Plural: snubs

Noun

• an instance of driving away or warding off
• a refusal to recognize someone you know
  • "the snub was clearly intentional"
• A deliberate affront or slight.
• A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
• A knot; a protuberance; a snag.

Verb

Verb Forms: snubbed, snubbing, snubs

• To treat with contempt or cold disregard; to reject.
• refuse to acknowledge
• reject outright and bluntly
  • "She snubbed his proposal"
• To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
• To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.
• To check; to reprimand.
• To stub out (a cigarette etc).
• To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
• To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
• To sob with convulsions.

Adjective Satellite

• unusually short
  • "a snub nose"

Adj

• Conspicuously short.
• Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
• Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.

Examples

• a snub-nosed revolver
• He felt snubbed when his opponent ignored his triple word score opportunity.
• He snubbed my offer of help.
• I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.

Synonyms

cold shoulder, cut, disregard, ignore, rebuff, repel, repulse, cut someone cold, cut someone dead, give someone the cold shoulder, turn the cold shoulder on someone

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