English Dictionary

spurn

verb

(transitive, intransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn. / (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot. / (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)

She decided to spurn his advances and focus on her career.

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.

to spurn at your most royal image

意味（2）

(transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.

Me thinks I ſee kings kneeling at his feet,

And he with frowning browes and fiery lookes,

Me thinks I ſee kings kneeling at his feet, And he with frowning browes and fiery lookes, Spurning their crownes from off their captiue heads.

意味（3）

(transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)

Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.

意味（4）

(intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.

oft' the ſudden Gale

Ruffles the Tide, and ſhifts the dang'rous Sail,

[…]

The drunken Chairman in the Kennel ſpurns,

oft' the ſudden Gale Ruffles the Tide, and ſhifts the dang'rous Sail, […] The drunken Chairman in the Kennel ſpurns, The Glaſſes ſhatters, and his Charge o'erturns.