Spurn: alternatives and connections

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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To empty.

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Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.

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To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.

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To sob with convulsions.

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

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A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

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To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!

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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.

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