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DECLINE, REFUSE, REJECT, REPUDIATE, SPURN mean to turn away by not accepting, receiving, or considering.

DECLINE often implies courteous refusal especially of offers or invitations.

e.g. declined his party's nomination

REFUSE suggests more positiveness or ungraciousness and often implies the denial of something asked for.

e.g. refused to lend them the money

REJECT implies a peremptory refusal by sending away or discarding.

e.g. rejected the manuscript as unpublishable

REPUDIATE implies a casting off or disowning as untrue, unauthorized, or unworthy of acceptance.

e.g. teenagers who repudiate the values of their parents

SPURN stresses contempt or disdain in rejection or repudiation.

e.g. spurned his overtures of friendship

verb with object

reject with disdain or contempt:

｟文｠ (プライドが高く)〈申し出など〉を拒否する, はねつける(reject); 〈恋人〉を振る

e.g. he spoke gruffly, as if afraid that his invitation would be spurned.

archaic strike, tread, or push away with the foot:

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

noun archaic

an act of spurning:

e.g. it is a spurn of God's sovereignty, and a slight of his goodness.

spurner |ˈspərnər| noun

Old English spurnan, spornan; related to Latin spernere ‘to scorn’; compare with spur.