Sekirov Dictionary

spurn

UK /spɜːn/US /spɝn/

noun 4
verb 4
forms 5

noun4

An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
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Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
- The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes. — 1599
A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
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(no longer used) A kick; a blow with the foot.
- What defence can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn? — 1643

verb4

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To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
- What safe and nicely I might well delay By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn. — 1603
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To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
- Me thinks I see kings kneeling at his feet, And he with frowning browes and fiery lookes, Spurning their crownes from off their captiue heads. — 1587
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To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
- Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal. — 2011
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(no longer used) To kick or toss up the heels.
- oft' the sudden Gale Ruffles the Tide, and shifts the dang'rous Sail, […] The drunken Chairman in the Kennel spurns, The Glasses shatters, and his Charge o'erturns. — 1716

forms

spurned · spurning · spurneth · spurns · spurnest

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