spurn
/spɜːn/ · noun
Meaning
- An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
- A kick; a blow with the foot.
- Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
- A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
- To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
- To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
- To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
- To kick or toss up the heels.
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