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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

spurn
    v 1: reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" [syn:
         reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh,
         disdain, turn down]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Spurn \Spurn\ (sp[^u]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spurned
   (sp[^u]rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Spurning.] [OE. spurnen to
   kick against, to stumble over, AS. spurnan to kick, offend;
   akin to spura spur, OS. & OHG. spurnan to kick, Icel. spyrna,
   L. spernere to despise, Skr. sphur to jerk, to push.
   [root]171. See Spur.]
   1. To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.
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            [The bird] with his foot will spurn adown his cup.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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            I spurn thee like a cur out of my way. --Shak.
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   2. To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to
      treat with contempt.
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            What safe and nicely I might well delay
            By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn. --Shak.
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            Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they
            find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid
            them at their master's feet.          --Locke.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Spurn \Spurn\, v. i.
   1. To kick or toss up the heels.
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            The miller spurned at a stone.        --Chaucer.
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            The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns. --Gay.
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   2. To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make
      contemptuous opposition or resistance.
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            Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image.
                                                  --Shak.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Spurn \Spurn\, n.
   1. A kick; a blow with the foot. [R.]
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            What defense can properly be used in such a
            despicable encounter as this but either the slap or
            the spurn?                            --Milton.
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   2. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
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            The insolence of office, and the spurns
            That patient merit of the unworthy takes. --Shak.
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   3. (Mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging
      mass.
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Thesaurus Results for spurn:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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