snub

/snʌb/ · noun

Meaning

A deliberate affront or slight.
A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
To turn down; 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.
Conspicuously short.
Of the nose: flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
(of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
To sob with convulsions.

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