Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To reject with disdain or contempt. synonym: refuse.
- intransitive verb Archaic To kick at or tread on disdainfully.
- intransitive verb To reject something contemptuously.
- noun A contemptuous rejection.
- noun A kick.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A blow with the foot; a kick.
- noun A stumble; a fall.
- noun Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
- noun In mining, one of the narrow pillars or connections left between the holings, and not cut away until just before the withdrawal of the sprags.
- noun A spur.
- noun A piece of wood having one end inserted in the ground, and the other nailed at an angle to a gate-post, for the purpose of strengthening or supporting it.
- To kick against; kick; drive back or away with the foot.
- To strike against.
- To reject with disdain; scorn to receive or consort with; treat with contempt.
- To kick.
- To dash the foot against something: light on something unexpectedly; stumble.
- To dash; rush.
- To manifest disdain or contempt in rejecting anything; make contemptuous opposition; manifest contempt or disdain in resistance.
- To spur.
- noun An evil spirit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To kick or toss up the heels.
- intransitive verb To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.
- transitive verb To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.
- transitive verb To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.
- noun rare A kick; a blow with the foot.
- noun Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
- noun (Mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, intransitive To
reject disdainfully ;contemn ;scorn . - verb transitive To reject something by
pushing it away with thefoot . - verb transitive To
waste ; fail to make the most of (an opportunity) - noun An act of spurning; a
scornful rejection . - noun A
kick ; a blow with the foot. - noun obsolete Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
- noun A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb reject with contempt
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Readdy did not "spurn" the offer for imagery - he simply did not pursue it.
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Readdy did not "spurn" the offer for imagery - he simply did not pursue it.
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Readdy did not "spurn" the offer for imagery - he simply did not pursue it.
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Committee lowered the Federal Reserve Interest Rate during the early '90's to "spurn" the economy out of the then post Gulf War recession.
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Committee lowered the Federal Reserve Interest Rate during the early '90's to "spurn" the economy out of the then post Gulf War recession.
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His "noble" act is to spurn Marcia who remains in love and dedicated to him.
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His "noble" act is to spurn Marcia who remains in love and dedicated to him.
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: It's Not The Illness That Stands To Destroy You MD Lloyd I. Sederer 2011
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He professed to have veered from the "old, foul road" down which language must drag itself, but is it not possible that what he was turning from was precisely his love of language, a luxury that his ascetic soul felt obliged to spurn?
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Deal Journal Bostock's Letter to Shareholders Yahoo's Bostock Letter — Reading Between the Lines Mr. Bostock, who helped spurn Microsoft Corp.'s 2008 bid to buy Yahoo for more than twice it's worth today, said in a statement the moves will help speed the company's transformation under new Chief Executive Scott Thompson , the former president of eBay's Pay Pal unit hired by Yahoo last month.
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Many of the Serim have hidden from the outside world, choosing to spurn its evil, licentious ways.
My Fair Succubi Jill Myles 2011
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