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Definition spurn

Etymology

From Middle English spurnen, spornen, from Old English spurnan (“to strike against, kick, spurn, reject; stumble”), from Proto-Germanic *spurnan? (“to tread, kick, knock out”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper-, *sperw- (“to twitch, push, fidget, be quick”). Cognate with Scots spurn (“to strike, push, kick”), German spornen (“to spur on”), Icelandic sporna, spyrna (“to kick”), Latin spern? (“despise, distain, scorn”). Related to spur and spread.

Verb

spurn (third-person singular simple present spurns, present participle spurning, simple past and past participle spurned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
2. (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
3. (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.

Noun

spurn (plural spurns)

1. An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
2. A kick; a blow with the foot.
3. (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
4. (mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

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