Snub

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To ignore or behave coldly toward; slight.
  • v. To dismiss, turn down, or frustrate the expectations of.
  • v. Nautical To check the movement of (a rope or cable running out) by turning it quickly about a post or cleat.
  • v. Nautical To secure (a vessel, for example) in this manner.
  • v. To stub out (a cigarette, for example).
  • n. A deliberate slight or affront.
  • n. Nautical A sudden checking, as of a rope or cable running out.
  • adj. Unusually short: a snub nose.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. conspicuously short
  • adj. Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces
  • n. A deliberate affront or slight.
  • n. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
  • n. A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
  • v. To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
  • v. To turn down; to dismiss.
  • v. To stub out (a cigarette etc).
  • v. To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To sob with convulsions.
  • v. To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.
  • v. To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.
  • v. To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.
  • n. A knot; a protuberance; a song.
  • n. A check or rebuke; an intended slight.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cut off short; nip; check in growth; stunt.
  • To make snub, as the nose.
  • To check or stop suddenly; check the headway of, as a vessel by means of a rope in order to turn her into a narrow berth, or an unbroken horse in order to break him to the halter: commonly with up; also, to fasten, or tie up, as to a snub or snubbing-post.
  • To disconcert; check; rebuke with a severe or sarcastic reply or remark; slight designedly; treat with deliberate neglect.
  • To affect or compel in a specific way by snubbing: as, to snub one into silence.
  • n. A protuberance or knot in wood.
  • n. A nose turned up at the tip and somewhat flat and broad; a pug-nose.
  • n. A check; a rebuff; a rebuke; an intentional slight.
  • n. The sudden checking of a rope or cable running out.
  • n. A stake, set in the bank of a river or canal, around which a rope may be cast to check the motion of a boat or raft.
  • Somewhat broad and flat, with the tip turned up: said of the nose.
  • n. See snob.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an instance of driving away or warding off
  • adj. unusually short
  • v. refuse to acknowledge
  • v. reject outright and bluntly
  • n. a refusal to recognize someone you know
    • Equivalent
    short    to snub a rope    snubbing post   
    Antonym
    aquiline   
    Verb Form
    snubbed    snubbing    snubness    snubs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rejection    do by    handle    treat    scorn    turndown    reject    spurn    disdain    pooh-pooh   
    Cross Reference
    to snub a cable   
    Variant
    snubbing    snubbed   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    reprimand    check    knot    protuberance    song    snubby    retroussé    retrousse    rhinocerical    reprove   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cub    Hub    bub    chubb    club    cub    drub    dub    grub    hub   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    communalism    externalism    determinist    deathblow    millimite    food-quest    niggle    nibbler    pre-eclampsia    amoebae   
     
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