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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Spurn \Spurn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spurned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Spurning}.] [OE. spurnen to kick against, to stumble over,
   AS. spurnan to kick, offend; akin to spura spur, OS. & OHG.
   spurnan to kick, Icel. spyrna, L. spernere to despise, Skr.
   sphur to jerk, to push. [root]171. See {Spur}.]
   1. To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.

            [The bird] with his foot will spurn adown his cup.
                                                  --Chaucer.

            I spurn thee like a cur out of my way. --Shak.

   2. To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to
      treat with contempt.

            What safe and nicely I might well delay By rule of
            knighthood, I disdain and spurn.      --Shak.

            Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they
            find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid
            them at their master's feet.          --Locke.

Spurn \Spurn\, v. i.
   1. To kick or toss up the heels.

            The miller spurned at a stone.        --Chaucer.

            The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns. --Gay.

   2. To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make
      contemptuous opposition or resistance.

            Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image.
                                                  --Shak.

Spurn \Spurn\, n.
   1. A kick; a blow with the foot. [R.]

            What defence can properly be used in such a
            despicable encounter as this but either the slap or
            the spurn?                            --Milton.

   2. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.

            The insolence of office and the spurns That patient
            merit of the unworthy takes.          --Shak.

   3. (Mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding
      mass.

资料来源 : WordNet®

spurn
     v : reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" [syn: {reject},
          {freeze off}, {scorn}, {pooh-pooh}, {disdain}, {turn
         down}]
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