snub
IPA: snˈʌb
noun
- A deliberate affront or slight.
- A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
- (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
verb
- (transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
- (transitive) To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.
- (transitive) To check; to reprimand.
- (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.
- (transitive) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
- To sob with convulsions.
adjective
- Conspicuously short.
- (of a nose) Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
- (mathematics, of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
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Examples of "snub" in Sentences
- Maids may snub Malaysia.
- For what were you snubbed
- The King snubbed the Queen.
- The man snubbed his friend.
- He was hurt after being snubbed.
- He studied hard not to be snubbed.
- He has a habit of snubbing others.
- He noticed that she was snubbing him.
- The AESC continued to snub the government.
- He often snubs other people with criticism.