spurn

[US]/spɜːn/
[UK]/spɜːrn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. reject with disdain; treat with contempt or scorn; kick away
vi. to show disdain or contempt; to reject
n. disdain or contempt; rejection; a kick

Example Sentences

They spurn all our offers of help.

with one touch of my feet, I spurn the solid Earth.

other spurned wives have taken public revenge on their husbands.

Spurns macrocephalus mainly depend on lipid as its energy consumption during the starvation period.

"she was known as a spurner of all suitors";

27、No one is tired of drinking water because of the wateriness of the water, while nobody may spurn the life because of the everydayness of the life.

The complicated misanthropy which enabled him, his interpreters declared, to love the public and spurn humanity, did not preclude certain trifling investigation of the tenderer emotions.

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