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Spurn

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Verb

1. disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, spurn, turn down

reject with contempt

Example Sentences:
'She spurned his advances'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Spurn

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verb
1. 
to reject (a person or thing) with contempt
2. (when intr, often foll by against) archaic
to kick (at)
noun
3. 
an instance of spurning
4. archaic
a kick or thrust

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Spurn

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verb transitive
1.  Archaic
to push or drive away contemptuously with or as with the foot
2. 
to refuse or reject with contempt or disdain; scorn
verb intransitive
3. 
to show contempt or disdain in refusing or rejecting
noun
4.  Archaic
a kick
5. 
scornful treatment or rejection

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Spurn

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v. spurned, spurn·ing, spurns
v.tr.
1. To reject with disdain or contempt. See Synonyms at refuse1.
2. Archaic To kick at or tread on disdainfully.
v.intr.
To reject something contemptuously.
n.
Archaic
1. A contemptuous rejection.
2. A kick.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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