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spurn

  [spurn] ,
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–verb (used with object)
1. to reject with disdain; scorn.
2. to treat with contempt; despise.
3. to kick or trample with the foot.
–verb (used without object)
4. to show disdain or contempt; scorn something.
–noun
5. disdainful rejection.
6. contemptuous treatment.
7. a kick.
Origin:
1250–1300; (v.) ME spurnen, OE spurnan; c. OS, OHG spurnan, ON sporna to kick; akin to L spernere to put away; (n.) ME: a kick, contemptuous stroke, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
spurner, noun

Synonyms:
1. See refuse 1 . 6. contumely.

Antonyms:
1. accept.
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spurn   (spûrn)   
v.   spurned, spurn·ing, spurns

v.   tr.

  1. To reject disdainfully or contemptuously; scorn. See Synonyms at refuse1.

  2. To kick at or tread on disdainfully.

v.   intr.
To reject something contemptuously.
n.  

  1. A contemptuous rejection.

  2. Archaic A kick.


[Middle English spurnen, from Old English spurnan; see sperə- in Indo-European roots.]
spurn'er n.
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