Spurn

v. t.	1.	To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick. [imp. & p. p. Spurned (spûrnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Spurning.] [The bird] with his foot will spurn adown his cup. - Chaucer. I spurn thee like a cur out of my way. - Shak.
	2.	To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt. What safe and nicely I might well delay By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn. - Shak. Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet. - Locke.
v. i.	1.	To kick or toss up the heels. The miller spurned at a stone. - Chaucer. The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns. - Gay.
	2.	To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance. Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image. - Shak.
n.	1.	A kick; a blow with the foot. What defense can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn? - Milton.
	2.	Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment. The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes. - Shak.
	3.	(Mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

Verb

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spurn - reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" Synonyms: freeze off, pooh-pooh, scorn, disdain, turn down, reject

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