American English pronunciation
How to pronounce dun
IPA transcription: ['dʌn]
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Noun
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horse of a dull brownish grey color
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a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
“she wore dun”
Verb
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treat cruelly
“The children tormented the stuttering teacher”
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persistently ask for overdue payment
“The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone”
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cure by salting
“dun codfish”
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make a dun color
Adjective
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of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color
“the dun and dreary prairie”
Usage examples
- The dune rose from the edge of the water.
- And there were dunes, rocks, and plants that insisted on living where survival seemed impossible.
- One year of his tenure was chronicled by John Gregory Dunne in "The Studio".
- He gave the Burkhan Khaldun the status of a royal sacred mountain.
- The peduncle stem is slender, flattened and rather short.
- Mike Dunne subsequently released a solo album, "Lost Soul", on Herb Tea Records.
- This section, north of Dunwoody Club Drive, is now the panhandle of Sandy Springs.
- The family seat is Broomhall House, three miles south-west of Dunfermline, Scotland.
- Every cock crows loud on his own dunghill.
- He saw the boy appear from the other side of the dunes.