snub

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snub / snəb/ • v. (snubbed, snub·bing) [tr.] 1. rebuff, ignore, or spurn disdainfully: he snubbed faculty members and students alike he snubbed her request to wind up the debate.2. check the movement of (a horse or boat), esp. by a rope wound around a post: a horse snubbed to a tree.• n. an act of showing disdain or a lack of cordiality by rebuffing or ignoring someone or something: he couldn't help thinking that the whole thing was meant to be taken as a snub.• adj. (of a person's or animal’s nose) short and turned up at the end: [in comb.] snub-nosed.