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All spurn antonyms

spurn
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verb spurn

  • willWallace, 1875–1959, U.S. journalist and humorist.
  • hungering — Present participle of hunger.
  • want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
  • make a killing — If you make a killing, you make a large profit very quickly and easily.
  • wish — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
  • crave — If you crave something, you want to have it very much.
  • look forward to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • elevate — Raise or lift (something) up to a higher position.
  • desiderate — to feel the lack of or need for; long for; miss
  • dignify — to confer honor or dignity upon; honor; ennoble.
  • hit pay dirt — to discover a source of wealth, success, etc.
  • have a mind to — think about doing
  • optate — (obsolete) To choose; to wish for; to desire.
  • cry out for — If you say that something cries out for a particular thing or action, you mean that it needs that thing or action very much.
  • fetch up — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
  • have eyes for — to be interested in
  • eat one's heart out — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • die for — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
  • break the bank — to ruin financially or deplete the resources of a bank (as in gambling)
  • hunger — a compelling need or desire for food.
  • hungered — Simple past tense and past participle of hunger.
  • advance — To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
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