Uttal
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Definitioner
Verb
- (ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
- (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
- (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
Substantiv
- An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
- A kick; a blow with the foot.
- (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
- A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
Exempel
- to spurn at your most royal image
- What safe and nicely I might well delay / By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.
- Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet.
- I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
- Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.
- The miller spurned at a stone.
- The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns.
- What defence can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn?
- The insolence of office and the spurns / That patient merit of the unworthy takes.
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