spurn

[US]/spɜːn/
[UK]/spɜːrn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. afvise med foragt; behandle med foragt eller hårdhed; sparke væk
vi. at udvise foragt eller hårdhed; at afvise
n. foragt eller hårdhed; afvisning; et spark
Word Forms
Present Participlespurning
Past Tensespurned
Past Participlespurned
Third Person Singularspurns

Example Sentences

They spurn all our offers of help.

De afviser al vores hjælp.

with one touch of my feet, I spurn the solid Earth.

med et enkelt tryk fra mine fødder, afviser jeg den faste jord.

other spurned wives have taken public revenge on their husbands.

andre afviste koner har taget offentlig hævn over deres mænd.

Spurns macrocephalus mainly depend on lipid as its energy consumption during the starvation period.

Spurns macrocephalus er primært afhængige af lipider som deres energiforbrug i løbet af den periodiske sult.

"she was known as a spurner of all suitors";

hun var kendt som en afviser af alle bejlere;

27、No one is tired of drinking water because of the wateriness of the water, while nobody may spurn the life because of the everydayness of the life.

Ingen er træt af at drikke vand på grund af vandets vandighed, og ingen bør afvise livet på grund af dets dagligdag.

The complicated misanthropy which enabled him, his interpreters declared, to love the public and spurn humanity, did not preclude certain trifling investigation of the tenderer emotions.

Den komplicerede misantropi, der gjorde det muligt for ham, hans fortolkere erklærede, at elske offentligheden og foragte menneskeheden, udelukkede ikke visse trivielle undersøgelser af de mere følsomme følelser.

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