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  • Tuntematon aksentti:
    • IPA: /spɜː(ɹ)n/

Määritelmät

Verbit

  1. (ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
  2. (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
  3. (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.

Substantiivit

  1. An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
  2. A kick; a blow with the foot.
  3. (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
  4. A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

Esimerkit

  • to spurn at your most royal image
  • What safe and nicely I might well delay / By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.
  • Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet.
  • I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
  • Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.
  • The miller spurned at a stone.
  • The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns.
  • What defence can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn?
  • The insolence of office and the spurns / That patient merit of the unworthy takes.

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektispurned
Imperfektispurned
Partisiipin preesensspurning
Monikkospurns
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesensspurns