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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats