snub

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Adjective

1. Conspicuously short.
   • a snub-nosed revolver
2. Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
3. Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.

Noun

1. A deliberate affront or slight.
   • I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.
2. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
3. A knot; a protuberance; a snag.

Verb

1. To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
2. To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.
   • He snubbed my offer of help.
3. To check; to reprimand.
4. To stub out (a cigarette etc).
5. To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
6. To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.

Verb

1. To sob with convulsions.

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