Spurn Definition

spûrn
spurned, spurning, spurns
verb
spurned, spurning, spurns
To show contempt or disdain in refusing or rejecting.
Webster's New World
To refuse or reject with contempt or disdain; scorn.
Webster's New World
To push or drive away contemptuously with or as with the foot.
Webster's New World
To reject something contemptuously.
American Heritage

To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)

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noun
spurns
Scornful treatment or rejection.
Webster's New World
A kick.
Webster's New World
A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.
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Other Word Forms of Spurn

Noun

Singular:
spurn
Plural:
spurns

Origin of Spurn

  • From Middle English spurnen, spornen, from Old English spurnan (“to strike against, kick, spurn, reject; stumble"), from Proto-Germanic *spurnanÄ… (“to tread, kick, knock out"), from Proto-Indo-European *sper-, *sperw- (“to twitch, push, fidget, be quick"). Cognate with Scots spurn (“to strike, push, kick"), German anspornen (“to spur on"), Icelandic sporna, spyrna (“to kick"), Latin spernō (“despise, distain, scorn"). Related to spur.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English spurnen from Old English spurnan sperə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Spurn Sentence Examples

  • Some of these even spurn from them the idea of any one having full Assurance, branding the idea as Presumption.

  • To this More answered, " Alas, Meg, it pitieth me to remember unto what misery, poor soul, she will .shortly come; these dances of hers will prove such dances that she will spurn our heads off like footballs; but it will not be long ere her head will dance the like dance."

  • Strange then, that Londoners prefer to spurn what is a superior machine, seduced instead by the retro charms of the Vespa.

  • Soon after this the town, which lay immediately inside Spurn Point, must have been destroyed.

  • The seaward horn of this bay, however, is formed by a narrow protruding bank of sand and stones, thrown up by a southward current along the Yorkshire coast, and known as Spurn Head.

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