Snub
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Adjective
Snub (comparative more Snub, superlative most Snub)
- conspicuously short
- a snub-nosed revolver
- (mathematics, of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces
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Noun
Snub (plural Snubs)- A deliberate affront or slight.
- I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.
- A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
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Snub (third-person singular simple present Snubs, present participle snubbing, simple past and past participle snubbed)
- (transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
- 1922, Margery Williams , The Velveteen Rabbit
- For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.
- 1922, Margery Williams , The Velveteen Rabbit
- (transitive) To turn down; to dismiss.
- He snubbed my offer to help.
- (transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).
- (transitive) To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
Adjectives for Snub
deliberate; suggestive; cold; shrewd; nasty.
Verbs for Snub
construe as—; expose to—; resent—; risk—; rue—; —abashes; —bewilders; —discom¬poses; —disconcerts; —discredits; —hum¬bles; —humiliates; —overwhelms; —petri¬fies; —reddens; -—reproaches; —slurs; — staggers; —stuns; —takes down a peg.
Adverbs for Snub
deliberately; coldly; acrimoniously; invidiously; permanently; contemptuously; hatefully; conceitedly.
Thesaurus
abbreviate, abbreviated, abridge, abridged, abstract, abstracted, arrest, ban, banish, beat back, blackball, bob, bobbed, boil down, bottle up, bridle, brush off, brush-off, capsule, capsulize, capsulized, cast out, chase, chase away, chase off, check, clip, clipped, cold shoulder, cold-shoulder, compress, compressed, condense, condensed, constrain, contain, contract, control, cool, cool off, countercheck, crop, cropped, curb, curtail, curtailed, cut, cut back, cut direct, cut down, cut off short, cut short, dam up, damp, dampen, decelerate, delay, deport, detain, digested, disfellowship, dismiss, dismissal, disregard, dock, docked, dompt, drive away, drive back, elide, elided, elliptic, enjoin, epitomize, exclude, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel, extradite, fend off, foreshorten, fugitate, govern, guard, high-hat, hinder, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold off, hold up, humiliation, impede, inhibit, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, keep, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep off, keep under control, lay under restraint, meddle, mow, mowed, mown, nip, nipped, not receive, oppose, ostracize, outlaw, pack off, poll, pollard, polled, prohibit, proscribe, prune, pruned, pull, pull in, push back, put back, put down, reap, reaped, rebuff, recap, recapitulate, reduce, refusal, refuse, refuse to receive, rein, rein in, relegate, repel, repress, repulse, resist, restrain, retard, retrench, rusticate, scotch, send away, send down, send off, send packing, send to Coventry, set back, shave, shaved, shear, sheared, short-cut, shorten, shortened, slacken, slight, slow down, sneer, sniff, snob, snort, snubbed, spurn, spurning, straiten, stunt, sum up, summarize, suppress, swank, synopsize, take in, telescope, the cold shoulder, the go-by, thrust back, thrust out, transport, trim, trimmed, truncate, turn away from, turn back, upstage, ward off, withhold
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