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- (ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- (ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
- (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
- (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
- [Noun]
- An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
- (archaic) A kick; a blow with the foot.
- (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
- (mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
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