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Another word for spurn

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Verb

  1. To be unwilling to accept, consider, or receive

    Idioms:
    See also:

    accept

  2. To slight (someone) deliberately

    Idioms:
    See also:

    accept

Noun

  1. A deliberate slight

    See also:

    accept

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Another word for spurn

Verb
  1. See also:

    refuse

    shun

    scorn

    evade

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Sentence Examples

  • Soon after this the town, which lay immediately inside Spurn Point, must have been destroyed.

  • The seaward horn of this bay, however, is formed by a narrow protruding bank of sand and stones, thrown up by a southward current along the Yorkshire coast, and known as Spurn Head.

  • The thickest covering of drift is found in the Holderness district of Yorkshire, where, from the chalk cliffs of Flamborough Head to the sandspit of Spurn Point, the whole coast is formed of boulderclay resting on chalk.

  • Spurn Hd.

  • Schoolmasters, do not spurn her either, nor cheat her of your earnings: she will bring you new students.

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