spurn

Speech parts

1. spurn - Noun

2. spurn - Verb

Meaning

To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.

To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.

To kick or toss up the heels.

To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.

Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.

A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

reject disdain scorn pooh-pooh turn down freeze off chuck coventry cut repulse shun jilt avoid decline slight
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Antonyms

popper brad hank cotter croft hatter
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Hypernyms

decline refuse

Hyponyms

repel snub rebuff

Derivatives

spurned spurning

Examples

She spurned his advances Source: Internet

But she was, at heart, never far removed from the farm where she grew up, and as you say, "True bucolic pleasures incorporate the grotesque: they do not spurn it." Source: Internet

But no nation has the right to spurn universal principles and invent its principles that call day night, the occupation just and discrimination equality. Source: Internet

Do you have a love affair, or spurn romance? Source: Internet

The time is ripe for those of good heart and long memory to spurn self-defeating cost cutting measures and launch the deluxe bourbon - thick in filling and encrusted with a bejewelled surface of refined sugar. Source: Internet

Seit observes the beautiful, spirited Jamilia spurn men's advances, and wince at the dispassionate letters she receives from her husband. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Spurlock spurmaker spurmaking Spurn Head spurn-water spurned