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.