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Snubbed

Snub \Snub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Snubbing.] [Cf. Icel. ssnubba to snub, chide, Sw. snubba, Icel. snubb[=o]ttr snubbed, nipped, and E. snib.]

  1. To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.

  2. To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.
    --J. Foster.

  3. To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.

    To snub a cable or To snub a rope (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out.
    --Totten.

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snubbed

vb. (en-past of: snub)

WordNet
snub

  1. adj. unusually short; "a snub nose"

  2. n. an instance of driving away or warding off [syn: rebuff, repulse]

  3. a refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional" [syn: cut, cold shoulder]

  4. [also: snubbing, snubbed]

snub

  1. v. refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting" [syn: ignore, disregard, cut]

  2. reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal" [syn: rebuff, repel]

  3. [also: snubbing, snubbed]

snubbed

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Usage examples of "snubbed".

Jameson lost his step, trying to avoid tripping over the thing, and was rewarded by a painful yank of the cord snubbed around his septum.

The four-foot bubble with the Cygnan and the two humanoids curled inside was snubbed securely to the shaft.

The bubble with its curled-up Cygnan and fetal humanoids was still snubbed in place.

Babe to ask so she could apologize to whomever she had inadvertently snubbed, some wild-headed woman swathed in fur.

And sentenced himself thereby to four years of skulking around a city which snubbed him unmercifully, while big brother Appius in the East accomplished deeds which showed all of Rome that he was a true Claudian when it came to making mischief.

I had not seen her, and had talked for a long time to Leonard--I had snubbed him for no reason, and that should have warned me I was in danger.

Mrs Leslie had said impertinent things to her about Ferdinand Lopez, and she had snubbed Mrs Leslie.

When, therefore, the First Secretary sounded him as to the expediency of some step in the direction of a firmer political combination than at present existing,--by which of course was meant the dethronement of the present Prime Minister,--Mr Roby had snubbed him!

She had never realized, I should think, what it was to be snubbed or found fault with in her life.

Stef found himself being ignored, and even snubbed, by several of the full Bardsmostly those who were passing through Haven on the way to somewhere else, but it still happened.