Synonyms for Spurn:

n.
- duck out of
- flinch from (doing) something
- get out of
- shirk
- stay out of
- wriggle out of (doing) something
• brush off
- brush
v.
• abstain
- cease
- constrain
- curb
- do without
- evade
- fast
- forbear
- quit
- refrain
- stop
• boycott
- blacklist
- cut off
- embargo
- strike
• brush aside/brush off
- get rid of
• contravene
- Disaffirm
- breach
- break
- combat
- counteract
- disobey
- encroach
- fight
- hinder
- impugn
- interfere
- intrude
- negate
- oppose
- refute
- thwart
- transgress
- traverse
- trespass
- violate
• dare
- beard
- brave
- bully
- call one's bluff
- confront
- cope
- face
- front
- goad
- laugh at
- meet
- provoke
- run the gauntlet
- threaten
• decline
- balk
- bypass
- desist
- shy
• defect
- abscond
- apostatize
- back out
- break faith
- depart
- go
- go over
- lapse
- leave
- pull out
- rat
- renege
- run out
- schism
- sell out
- tergiversate
- walk out on
- withdraw
• defy
- baffle
- elude
- foil
- hang tough
- venture
- withstand
• deny
- Disacknowledge
- begrudge
- controvert
- disbelieve
- discredit
- disprove
- doubt
- forbid
- hold back
- nullify
- rebut
- restrain
- sacrifice
• depreciate
- clamored against
- clamoring against
- clamors against
- de cried
- de cries
- de cry
- de crying
- de fame
- de famed
- de fames
- de faming
- de tract
- de tracts
- de-cried
- de-cries
- de-cry
- de-crying
- de-fame
- de-famed
- de-fames
- de-faming
- de-tract
- de-tracts
- dis counted
- dis countenance
- dis countenanced
- dis countenances
- dis countenancing
- dis counting
- dis counts
- dis grace
- dis graced
- dis graces
- dis gracing
- dis praise
- dis praised
- dis praises
- dis praising
- dis-counted
- dis-countenance
- dis-countenanced
- dis-countenances
- dis-countenancing
- dis-counting
- dis-counts
- dis-grace
- dis-graced
- dis-graces
- dis-gracing
- dis-praise
- dis-praised
- dis-praises
- dis-praising
- finding fault with
- finds fault with
- found fault with
- re vile
- re-vile
- scoffing at
- scoffs at
- sneered at
- sneering at
- sneers at
- take down peg
- takes down a peg
- takes down peg
- taking down a peg
- taking down peg
- took down a peg
- took down peg
- under estimate
- under estimated
- under estimates
- under estimating
- under rate
- under rated
- under rates
- under rating
- under value
- under valued
- under values
- under valuing
- under-estimate
- under-estimated
- under-estimating
- under-rate
- under-rated
- under-rates
- under-rating
- under-value
- under-valued
- under-values
- under-valuing
• despise
- allergicked to
- allergicking to
- allergics to
- de tested
- de testing
- de-tested
- de-testing
- feeling contempt for
- feels contempt for
- felt contempt for
- had no use for
- haddest no use for
- hadst no use for
- has no use for
- hast no use for
- hath no use for
- looked down nose at
- looking down nose at
- looks down nose at
- mis prize
- mis prized
- mis prizes
- mis prizing
- mis-prize
- mis-prized
- mis-prizes
- mis-prizing
- misprizes
• disapprove
- dis approve
- dis approved
- dis approves
- dis approving
- dis commend
- dis commended
- dis commending
- dis commends
- dis esteem
- dis esteemed
- dis esteeming
- dis esteems
- dis favor
- dis favored
- dis favoring
- dis favors
- dis liked
- dis liking
- dis-approve
- dis-approved
- dis-approves
- dis-approving
- dis-commend
- dis-commended
- dis-commending
- dis-commends
- dis-esteem
- dis-esteemed
- dis-esteeming
- dis-esteems
- dis-favor
- dis-favored
- dis-favoring
- dis-favors
- dis-liked
- dis-liking
- discommended
- discommending
- discommends
- ex postulate
- ex postulated
- ex postulates
- ex postulating
- ex-postulate
- ex-postulated
- ex-postulates
- ex-postulating
- finding unacceptable
- finds unacceptable
- found unacceptable
- frowning on
- frowns on
- looked askance at
- looking askance at
- looks askance at
- objected to
- objecting to
- objects to
- re prove
- re proved
- re proves
- re-prove
- re-proved
- re-proves
- re-proving
- sets aside
- takes dim view of
- taking dim view of
- took dim view of
- zinged
• disclaim
- be littles
- be-little
- be-littles
- dis claim
- dis claimed
- dis claiming
- dis claims
- dis-claim
- dis-claimed
- dis-claiming
- dis-claims
- divorced from
- divorced oneself from
- divorces from
- divorces oneself from
- divorcing from
- divorcing oneself from
- re tract
- re tracts
- re-tract
- re-tracts
- turning back on
- turns back on
- washed hands of
- washes hands of
- washing hands of
• disdain
- am allergic to
- are allergic to
- art allergic to
- being allergic to
- is allergic to
- poohpooh
- was allergic to
- wast allergic to
- were allergic to
- wert allergic to
• dismiss
- dis missed
- dis missing
- dis-missed
- dis-missing
- kissed off
- kisses off
- kissing off
- laughed away
- laughing away
- laughs away
- laying aside
- re legate
- re legates
- re-legate
- re-legates
• fend off
- beating off
- beats off
- drave back
- drives back
- drove back
- fended off
- held at bay
- held bay
- hold bay
- holding at bay
- holding bay
- holds at bay
- holds bay
- keep a distance
- keep arm length
- keep arms length
- keep at arm length
- keep at arms length
- keep at distance
- keeping a distance
- keeping arm length
- keeping arm's length
- keeping arms length
- keeping at a distance
- keeping at arm length
- keeping at arm's length
- keeping at arms length
- keeping at distance
- keeping distance
- keeping off
- keeps a distance
- keeps arm length
- keeps arm's length
- keeps arms length
- keeps at a distance
- keeps at arm length
- keeps at arm's length
- keeps at arms length
- keeps at distance
- keeps distance
- keeps off
- kept a distance
- kept arm length
- kept arm's length
- kept arms length
- kept at a distance
- kept at arm length
- kept at arm's length
- kept at arms length
- kept at distance
- kept distance
- kept off
- turns aside
• flout
- out raged
- out rages
- out raging
- out-rage
- out-raged
- out-rages
- out-raging
- thumbed nose at
- thumbing nose at
- thumbs nose at
• forsake
- Re sign
- change one tune
- change ones tune
- change tune
- drifted away
- drifting away
- had done with
- haddest done with
- hadst done with
- has done with
- hast done with
- hath done with
- having done with
- kissed goodbye
- kisses goodbye
- kissing goodbye
- leave high dry
- leaved flat
- leaved high and dry
- leaved high dry
- leaves flat
- leaves high and dry
- leaves high dry
- leaving flat
- leaving high and dry
- leaving high dry
- left flat
- left high and dry
- left high dry
- ran out on
- re signed
- re signing
- re signs
- re-signed
- re-signs
- runs out on
- show door
- showed door
- showed the door
- showing door
- showing the door
- shows door
- shows the door
- sur rendered
- sur rendering
- sur renders
- sur-render
- sur-rendered
- sur-rendering
- sur-renders
- takes oath
- takes the oath
- taking oath
- taking the oath
- took oath
- took the oath
- wash one hands of
- wash ones hands of
- washed one hands of
- washed one's hands of
- washed ones hands of
- washes one hands of
- washes one's hands of
- washes ones hands of
- washing one hands of
- washing one's hands of
- washing ones hands of
• hate
- am disgusted with
- am hostile to
- am loath
- am reluctant
- am repelled by
- am sick of
- am sorry
- are disgusted with
- are hostile to
- are loath
- are reluctant
- are repelled by
- are sick of
- are sorry
- art hostile to
- art loath
- art reluctant
- art repelled by
- art sick of
- art sorry
- bare a grudge against
- bare grudge against
- bear grudge against
- beared a grudge against
- beared grudge against
- bearing a grudge against
- bearing grudge against
- bears a grudge against
- bears grudge against
- being disgusted with
- being hostile to
- being loath
- being reluctant
- being repelled by
- being sick of
- being sorry
- bore a grudge against
- bore grudge against
- can't standing
- can't stands
- can't stood
- cant stand
- cant standing
- cant stands
- cant stood
- downed on
- downing on
- downs on
- feeling malice to
- feels malice to
- felt malice to
- had an aversion to
- had aversion to
- had enough of
- haddest an aversion to
- haddest aversion to
- haddest enough of
- hadst an aversion to
- hadst aversion to
- hadst enough of
- has an aversion to
- has aversion to
- has enough of
- hast an aversion to
- hast aversion to
- hast enough of
- hath an aversion to
- hath aversion to
- hath enough of
- having an aversion to
- having aversion to
- having enough of
- is disgusted with
- is hostile to
- is loath
- is reluctant
- is repelled by
- is sick of
- is sorry
- recoiled from
- recoiling from
- recoils from
- shuddered at
- shuddering at
- shudders at
- spat up on
- spat upon
- spit up on
- spits up on
- spits upon
- spitted up on
- spitted upon
- spitting up on
- spitting upon
- was disgusted with
- was hostile to
- was loath
- was reluctant
- was repelled by
- was sick of
- was sorry
- wast disgusted with
- wast hostile to
- wast loath
- wast reluctant
- wast repelled by
- wast sick of
- wast sorry
- were disgusted with
- were hostile to
- were loath
- were reluctant
- were repelled by
- were sick of
- were sorry
- wert disgusted with
- wert hostile to
- wert loath
- wert reluctant
- wert repelled by
- wert sick of
- wert sorry
• kick
- ex cept
- ex-cept
- pro tested
- pro testing
- pro-tested
- pro-testing
- re pine
- re pined
- re pines
- re pining
- re-pine
- re-pined
- re-pines
- re-pining
• loathe
- am down on
- are down on
- being down on
- feeling repugnance
- feels repugnance
- felt repugnance
- finding disgusting
- finds disgusting
- found disgusting
- is down on
- was down on
- wast down on
- were down on
- wert down on
• look down on
- looked down on
- turn nose at
- turned nose at
- turned nose up at
- turning nose at
- turning nose up at
- turns nose at
- turns nose up at
• neglect
- Pretermitted
- Pretermitting
- had nothing do with
- had nothing to do with
- haddest nothing do with
- haddest nothing to do with
- hadst nothing do with
- hadst nothing to do with
- has nothing do with
- has nothing to do with
- hast nothing do with
- hast nothing to do with
- hath nothing do with
- hath nothing to do with
- have nothing do with
- having nothing do with
- having nothing to do with
- keep one distance
- keep ones distance
- keeping one distance
- keeping one's distance
- keeping ones distance
- keeps one distance
- keeps one's distance
- keeps ones distance
- kept one distance
- kept one's distance
- kept ones distance
- laughed off
- laughing off
- laughs off
- letted go
- lived with
- makes light of
- making light of
- over look
- over looked
- over looks
- over-look
- over-looking
- over-looks
- paid no attention to
- paid no mind
- payed no attention to
- payed no mind
- paying no attention to
- pays no attention to
- pays no mind
- pretermits
- tuned out
- tunes out
- tuning out
• refuse
- study at refuse
Other synonyms:

•

avoid
blank
revolt
veto
wall

•

stand up

Other relevant words:

• condemn

disapprove

• defy

• deny

• disapprove

• dismiss

• fend off

• flout

• hate

• kick

• neglect

• refuse

• reject

casting out
shot down

• renounce

• repulse

• Other relevant words (adjective):

behaviour

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

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Equivalence
- Verb, base form
  reject.
Independent
- Verb, base form
  dismiss.

What are the hypernyms for Spurn?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
contempt, disregard, ignore, rebuff, refuse, reject, repudiate, scorn, turn down.

What are the opposite words for spurn?

Spurn means to reject or contemptuously refuse. Some of the antonyms for spurn are accept, embrace, welcome, receive, embrace or adopt. These words imply a positive attitude towards someone or something that is being offered or presented. For example, accepting an invitation or a gift, embracing a new opportunity, welcoming a stranger, receiving feedback, adopting a new habit or belief, all indicate an open-minded and accepting approach. Each of these antonyms for spurn reflects a willingness to be inclusive, kind, and understanding towards others. These words can help to cultivate a positive and compassionate attitude, which can foster better relationships and promote mutual respect.

What are the antonyms for Spurn?

v.
• abstain
- indulge
- use
• advance
- brake bank
- brake the bank
- break bank
- break the bank
- breaking bank
- breaking the bank
- breaks bank
- breaks the bank
- broke bank
- broke the bank
- gat fat
- gat rich
- get fat
- get rich
- gets rich
- got fat
- got rich
- gotten fat
- gotten rich
- hit jackpot
- hit pay dirt
- hits pay dirt
- hitting pay dirt
- made a killing
- made killing
- make a killing
- make killing
- makes a killing
- makes killing
- making a killing
- making killing
- multi plying
- multi-plied
- multi-plying
- strike gold
- strike it rich
- strike rich
- strikes gold
- strikes rich
- striking gold
- striking rich
- strook gold
- strook it rich
- struck gold
- struck it rich
- struck rich
- up grade
- up graded
- up grades
- up grading
- up lift
- up lifted
- up lifting
- up lifts
- up-graded
- up-grades
- up-grading
- up-lift
- up-lifted
- up-lifting
- up-lifts
• boycott
- buy
- encourage
- support
• brush aside/brush off
- attend
- pay attention
- see
• choose
- will
• contravene
- agree
- aid
- allow
- approve
- assent
- assist
- concur
- consent
- endorse
- help
- permit
- uphold
• crave
- FORS
- Suspired
- ache for
- ached for
- aches for
- aching for
- ate heart out
- ate one heart out
- ate one's heart out
- ate ones heart out
- be sought
- be-sought
- cried out for
- cries out for
- cry out for
- crying out for
- die for
- died for
- dieing for
- dies for
- dying for
- eat heart out
- eat one heart out
- eat one's heart out
- eat ones heart out
- eating heart out
- eating one heart out
- eating one's heart out
- eating ones heart out
- eats heart out
- eats one heart out
- eats one's heart out
- eats ones heart out
- fored
- foring
- gave eyeteeth for
- give eyeteeth for
- gives eyeteeth for
- giving eyeteeth for
- hunger for
- hungered for
- hungering for
- hungers for
- itch for
- itched for
- itches for
- itching for
- long for
- longed for
- longing for
- longs for
- lust after
- lusted after
- lusting after
- lusts after
- pine for
- pined for
- pines for
- pining for
- plead for
- pleaded for
- pleads for
- pray for
- prayed for
- re quire
- re quired
- re quires
- re quiring
- re-quire
- re-quired
- re-quires
- re-quiring
- sigh for
- sighed for
- sighing for
- sighs for
- spoil for
- spoiled for
- spoiling for
- spoils for
- spoilt for
- suspire
- suspires
- suspiring
- thirst for
- thirsted for
- thirsting for
- thirsts for
- yearn for
- yearned for
- yearning for
- yearns for
- yen for
- yenned for
- yenning for
- yens for
• decline
- accept
- say yes
• defect
- come in
- join
• defy
- give in
- obey
- surrender
- yield
• deny
- accede
- acknowledge
- admit
- affirm
- concede
- confess
- corroborate
- go along
- grant
• desire
- want
- wish
• desire intensely
- crave
• dignify
- Subliming
- pro moting
- pro-mote
- pro-motes
- pro-moting
- sub lime
- sub limed
- sub limes
- sub liming
- sub-lime
- sub-limed
- sub-liming
- sublimed
- sublimes
- up rear
- up rearing
- up rears
- up-rear
- up-reared
- up-rearing
- up-rears
• elevate
- Ramped
- Ramping
- elevated
- ex cite
- ex cited
- ex cites
- ex citing
- ex-cite
- ex-cited
- ex-cites
- fetch up
- fetched up
- hiked up
- hiking up
- in crease
- in creases
- in creasing
- in spire
- in spired
- in spires
- in spiring
- in-crease
- in-creased
- in-creases
- in-spire
- in-spired
- in-spires
- in-spiring
- jack up
- jacked up
- lift up
- lifted up
- lifting up
- lifts up
- put up
- pyramidded
- pyramidding
- re fine
- re fined
- re fines
- re-fine
- re-fines
- re-fining
- shoot up
- shooting up
- shoots up
- stilts
- up held
- up hold
- up holding
- up holds
- up raise
- up raised
- up raising
- up-held
- up-hold
- up-holding
- up-holds
- up-raise
- up-raised
- up-raises
- up-raising
• favor; single out
- prefer
• increase in amount, number, or position
- advance(s)
• lift up
- elevate
• make honorable; glorify
- dignify
• noun
- condone
- countenance
- handpick
- receive
- select
- take
- welcome
• prefer
- Optate
- Propone
- am partial to
- am turned on to
- am turned to
- are partial to
- are turned on to
- are turned to
- art partial to
- art turned on to
- art turned to
- be partial to
- be turned on to
- be turned to
- being partial to
- being turned on to
- being turned to
- de sire
- de sired
- de sires
- de siring
- de-sire
- de-sired
- de-sires
- de-siring
- fix upon
- fixed upon
- fixes up on
- fixing upon
- fixt up on
- fixt upon
- in cline
- in clines
- in-cline
- in-clines
- is partial to
- is turned on to
- is turned to
- like better
- liked better
- likes better
- liking better
- optates
- optating
- opted for
- opting for
- opts for
- pre sent
- pre-sent
- pre-sents
- pro pone
- pro pones
- pro position
- pro positioned
- pro positioning
- pro positions
- pro pounded
- pro pounding
- pro pounds
- pro-pone
- pro-pones
- pro-positioned
- pro-positioning
- pro-positions
- pro-pound
- pro-pounded
- pro-pounding
- pro-pounds
- proponed
- propones
- proponing
- put forward
- puts forward
- putting forward
- was partial to
- was turned on to
- was turned to
- wast partial to
- wast turned on to
- wast turned to
- were partial to
- were turned on to
- were turned to
- wert partial to
- wert turned on to
- wert turned to
- would rather
- would sooner
- woulded rather
- woulded sooner
- woulding rather
- woulding sooner
- woulds rather
- woulds sooner
• spurn
- embrace
• turn away; ignore
- admire
- ascend
- compliment
- esteem
- include
- like
- love
- ok
- praise
- respect
- rise
- sanction
• want
- Desiderate
- Desiderated
- Desiderating
- Hungered
- Hungering
- am greedy
- are greedy
- art greedy
- be greedy
- being greedy
- could do with
- coulded do with
- coulding do with
- coulds do with
- desiderates
- feel a need
- feel need
- feeling a need
- feeling need
- feels a need
- feels need
- felt need
- had a passion for
- had a yen for
- had an urge for
- had passion for
- had urge for
- had yen for
- haddest a passion for
- haddest a yen for
- haddest ambition
- haddest an urge for
- haddest eyes for
- haddest passion for
- haddest urge for
- haddest yen for
- hadst a passion for
- hadst a yen for
- hadst ambition
- hadst an urge for
- hadst eyes for
- hadst passion for
- hadst yen for
- has ambition
- has urge for
- has yen for
- hast a passion for
- hast a yen for
- hast ambition
- hast an urge for
- hast eyes for
- hast passion for
- hast urge for
- hast yen for
- hath a passion for
- hath a yen for
- hath ambition
- hath eyes for
- hath urge for
- hath yen for
- have a passion for
- have a yen for
- have ambition
- have an urge for
- have eyes for
- have passion for
- have urge for
- have yen for
- having a passion for
- having a yen for
- having ambition
- having passion for
- having urge for
- having yen for
- incline toward
- inclined toward
- inclines toward
- inclining toward
- is greedy
- was greedy
- wast greedy
- were greedy
• will
- are inclined
- art inclined
- be inclined
- being inclined
- had a mind to
- had mind to
- haddest a mind to
- hadst a mind to
- has a mind to
- hast mind to
- hath a mind to
- have a mind to
- have mind to
- having a mind to
- having mind to
- is inclined
- saw fit
- see fit
- seeing fit
- sees fit
- was inclined
- wast inclined
- were inclined
- wert inclined
• wish
- look forward to
- looked forward to
- looking forward to
- re quested
- re questing
- re quests
- re-questing
- re-quests
- set heart on
- set one heart on
- set one's heart on
- set ones heart on
- sets heart on
- sets one heart on
- sets one's heart on
- sets ones heart on
- setting heart on
- setting one heart on
- setting one's heart on
- setting ones heart on
- yenned
- yens
Other relevant words:

Usage examples for Spurn

"It's astonishing," Phineas remarked sententiously, "how many people not only refuse to catch pleasure as it flies, but spurn it when it sits up and begs at them.

"The Rough Road"

William John Locke

Some such thing he does, to find satisfaction for an instinct which you in your worldly wisdom or your heavenly piety spurn and ridicule.

"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"

Upton Sinclair

Not quite seeing his way to conduct his adversary from that posture into the garden, the duke was fain, while seeking a feasible plan, to spurn the lowly nobleman with his foot.

"A Poached Peerage"

William Magnay

Famous quotes with Spurn

Let none with scorn a suppliant meet, Or from the door untended spurn A dog; an outcast kindly treat; And so thou shalt be blest in turn.

Mahabharata
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

J. Sidlow Baxter
You young maidens, too long constrained by a fanciful Virtue's absurd and dangerous bonds and by those of a disgusting religion, imitate the fiery EugÃ©nie; be as quick as she to destroy, to spurn all those ridiculous precepts inculcated in you by imbecile parents.

Marquis de Sade
Falsehoods which we spurn to-day Were the truths of long ago.

John Greenleaf Whittier
If e'er thy breast with freedom glow'd, And spurn'd a tyrant's chain, Let not thy strong oppressive force A free-born mouse detain.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

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