Spurn

Quick meaning: Spurn is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
2. (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
4. An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
5. (mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
6. (archaic) A kick; a blow with the foot.
7. (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.

Example Sentences

to spurn at your most royal image

I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.

What safe and nicely I might well delay By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.

She will spurn a Tyrone Power/A Van Johnson or a Gable/For a Cenek Kottnauer/Or a man like Dr. Treybal

Word Forms

• spurns
• spurning
• spurned

Synonyms for spurn

Depending on context, synonyms include disdain, scorn, reject, pooh-pooh.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scorn, disdain, reject, pooh-pooh, insolent, condemn.

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