Associations to the word «Spurn»

Wiktionary

SPURN, verb. (ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
SPURN, verb. (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
SPURN, verb. (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
SPURN, verb. (intransitive) (obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
SPURN, noun. An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
SPURN, noun. A kick; a blow with the foot.
SPURN, noun. (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
SPURN, noun. A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

Dictionary definition

SPURN, verb. Reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances".

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley