Usually means: Reject with disdain or contempt.
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  1. spurn: Merriam-Webster.com
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  3. spurn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  9. spurn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. spurn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  14. spurn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. spurn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  20. spurn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  1. spurn: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See spurned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
verb:  (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
verb:  (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
noun:  An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
noun:  A kick; a blow with the foot.
noun:  (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
noun:  (mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

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