Meaning

4 senses
  1. An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.

    Verschmähen, Verschmähung

    презри́тельный отка́зprezrítelʹnyj

  2. A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

  3. (archaic)A kick; a blow with the foot.

    Tritt

    пино́кpinók

  4. (obsolete)Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. I spurn your offer.

    Я відхиляю твою пропозицію. — rmdas

  2. The more she spurns my love, the more it grows.

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  3. There's nothing worse than the revenge of a spurned woman.

    deEs gibt nichts Schlimmeres, als die Rache einer geschmähten Frau. — Esperantostern

  4. Spurning every gift, he does not let himself be bound.

  5. So-called regional specialities are things prized by out-of-towners but spurned by locals.

    deSogenannte „regionale Spezialitäten“ sind Dinge, die von Auswärtigen hoch geschätzt, von Ortsansässigen aber verschmäht werden. — Yorwba

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
an act of spurning; a scornful rejection:
a kick:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
an act of spurning; a scornful rejection:
a kick:

Origin

From Middle English spurnen, spornen, from Old English spurnan (“to strike against, kick,

From Middle English spurnen, spornen, from Old English spurnan (“to strike against, kick, spurn, reject; stumble”), from Proto-Germanic *spurnaną (“to tread, kick, knock out”), from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.

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Forms

plural: spurns
Singularspurn
Pluralspurns

regular

See also

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