spurn

UK /spɜːn/ US /spɝn/
verb 4noun 4

Definitions

verb

1

To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.

to spurn at your most royal image

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

2

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.

I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.

3

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.

4

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.

noun

1

An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.

2

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?

3

Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.

The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes.

4

A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

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