Spurn Definition

spûrn
spurned, spurning, spurns
verb
spurned, spurning, spurns
To show contempt or disdain in refusing or rejecting.
Webster's New World
To refuse or reject with contempt or disdain; scorn.
Webster's New World
To push or drive away contemptuously with or as with the foot.
Webster's New World
To reject something contemptuously.
American Heritage

To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)

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noun
spurns
Scornful treatment or rejection.
Webster's New World
A kick.
Webster's New World
A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.
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Other Word Forms of Spurn

Noun

Singular:
spurn
Plural:
spurns

Origin of Spurn

  • From Middle English spurnen, spornen, from Old English spurnan (“to strike against, kick, spurn, reject; stumble"), from Proto-Germanic *spurnanÄ… (“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 anspornen (“to spur on"), Icelandic sporna, spyrna (“to kick"), Latin spernō (“despise, distain, scorn"). Related to spur.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English spurnen from Old English spurnan sperə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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