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Thesaurus: spurn

To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.

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  1. v. t. To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.
  2. v. t. To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.
  3. v. i. To kick or toss up the heels.
  4. v. i. To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.
  5. n. A kick; a blow with the foot.
  6. n. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.
  7. n. A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.
  8. v. reject with contempt
  9. v:100 v reject with contempt