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Embarrassment vs Snub - What's the difference?

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Embarrassment is a related term of snub.


As nouns the difference between embarrassment and snub

is that embarrassment is a state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation while snub is a deliberate affront or slight.

As an adjective snub is

conspicuously short.

As a verb snub is

to slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone or snub can be to sob with convulsions.

embarrassment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
  • A state of confusion arising from hesitation or difficulty in choosing.
  • A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
    • ''Kevin, you are an embarrassment to this family.
    ''Losing this highly publicized case was an embarrassment to the firm.
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  • (medical) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment .

    • Derived terms

    * embarrassment of riches

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    snub

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Conspicuously short.
  • *
  • *:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
  • Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
    • Derived terms
    * retrosnub * snub cube * snub disphenoid * snub dodecahedron * snub polyhedron * vertisnub

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deliberate affront or slight.
    • I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub .
  • A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
  • (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
  • * Spenser
    • [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
    Derived terms
    * snubbing post * snub line

    Verb

    (snubb)
  • To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.
  • To turn down; to dismiss.
    • He snubbed my offer to help.
  • 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.
    • Synonyms
    * (to slight or ignore) cut someone cold, cut someone dead

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) , and English snuff (transitive verb).

    Verb

    (snubb)
  • To sob with convulsions.
    • (Bailey)

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