Difference between Snub and Rebuff

What is the difference between Snub and Rebuff?

Snub as a noun is a deliberate affront or slight. while Rebuff as a noun is a sudden resistance or refusal.

Snub

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A deliberate affront or slight. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: conspicuously short Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone. To turn down; to dismiss. 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.

Rebuff

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sudden resistance or refusal.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.To buff again.

We hope you now know whether to use Snub or Rebuff in your sentence.

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