Usually means: Rejects or refuses with disdain.
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  1. spurns: Merriam-Webster
  2. spurns: Collins English Dictionary
  3. spurns: Vocabulary.com
  4. Spurns, spurns: Wordnik
  5. spurns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. spurns: Wiktionary
  7. spurns: Dictionary.com
  8. spurns: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. spurns: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spurns: Legal dictionary

(Note: See spurn as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (spurn)

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