Definitions for spurn

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Spelling: [spurn]
IPA: /spɜrn/

Spurn is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in spurn (nprsu).

Definitions for spurn

noun

  1. disdainful rejection.
  2. contemptuous treatment.
  3. a kick.

verb (used with object)

  1. to reject with disdain; scorn.
  2. to treat with contempt; despise.
  3. to kick or trample with the foot.

verb (used without object)

  1. to show disdain or contempt; scorn something.

Origin of spurn

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English spurnen, Old English spurnan; cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German spurnan, Old Norse sporna to kick; akin to Latin spernere to put away; (noun) Middle Engli

Examples for spurn

Mutlaq is painfully aware that his own side will be harmed if they spurn a place at the table of the enfranchised.

The hand did not spurn the coins, which I—rather timidly, I confess—dropped into it.

In a conversation with Charlie Rose, Melinda Gates said that foundations must act as catalysts to spurn governments into action.

Should you give me the right to vote and deny it to my sister I should spurn the gift.

And if there is a man in this world whom you have the right to spurn, I am that man also.'

No, I will tear his image from my bosom, tread on him, spurn him.

A Ted Cruz may spurn those local politicians, and instead build his campaign upon national organizations.

LaSalvia went on to cite examples large and small of how the Republican Party had continued to spurn gay conservatives.

"I spurn the imposition," said Lady Dorothea, tearing it in fragments.

To spurn the hungry from their door, with naught to satisfy.

Word Value for spurn
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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