Look up: Spurn

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   spurn
   have nothing to do reject or refuse 
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   Spurn
   Spurn transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Spurned ; present participle & verbal noun Spurning .] [ Middle English spurnen to kick against, to stumble over, Anglo-Saxon spurnan to kick, offend; akin to spura spur, Old Saxon & Old High German spurnan to kick, Icelandic spyrna , Latin spernere
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   Spurn
   Spurn intransitive verb 1. To kick or toss up the heels. « The miller spurned at a stone.» Chaucer. « The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns .» Gay. 2. To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance. « Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image.» Shak.
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   Spurn
   Spurn noun 1. A kick; a blow with the foot. [ R.] « What defence can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn ?» Milton. 2. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment. « The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes.» Shak. 3. (Mini ...
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   spurn
   1. 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?' (Milton) ... 2. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment. 'The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes.' (Shak) ... 3. <chemical> A body of coal left to sustain an o ...
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   spurn
   freeze off verb reject with contempt; `She spurned his advances`
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   Spurn
   `Spurn Point` (or `Spurn Head` as it is also known) is a narrow sand spit on the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber estuary. It is over 3 miles (5 km) long, almost half of the width of the estuary at that point, and as little as 50 yards (45 metres) wide in places. The southernmost tip is known as Spurn Head or Spurn Point and is the home to...
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   Spurn
   • (v. t.) To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick. • (v. i.) To kick or toss up the heels. • (n.) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass. • (n.) A kick; a blow with the foot. • (v. t.) To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt. • (n.) Disdainful rejection; contem...
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