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Dun

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Noun

1. dun

horse of a dull brownish grey color

2. dun, fawn, grayish brown, greyish brown

a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color

Example Sentences:
'she wore dun'

Verb

3. bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment

treat cruelly

Example Sentences:
'The children tormented the stuttering teacher'

4. dun

persistently ask for overdue payment

Example Sentences:
'The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone'

5. dun

cure by salting

Example Sentences:
'dun codfish'

6. dun

make a dun color

Adjective

7. dun

of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color

Example Sentences:
'the dun and dreary prairie'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Dun

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verbWord forms: duns, dunning or dunned
1. (transitive)
to press or importune (a debtor) for the payment of a debt
noun
2. 
a person, esp a hired agent, who importunes another for the payment of a debt
3. 
a demand for payment, esp one in writing
noun
1. 
a brownish-grey colour
2. 
a horse of this colour
3. angling
a. 
an immature adult mayfly (the subimago), esp one of the genus Ephemera
b. 
an artificial fly imitating this or a similar fly
adjectiveWord forms: dunner or dunnest
4. 
of a dun colour
5. 
dark and gloomy

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Dun

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adjective
1. 
dull grayish-brown
noun
2. 
a dull grayish brown
3. 
a dun horse
4. 
an artificial fishing fly of this color
5. 
mayfly
verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: dunned or ˈdunning
1. 
to ask (a debtor) insistently or repeatedly for payment
2. 
to annoy constantly
noun
3. 
a person who duns
4. 
an insistent demand, esp. for payment of a debt

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Dun

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tr.v. dunned, dun·ning, duns
To importune (a debtor) for payment: a dunning letter.
n.
1. One that duns.
2. An importunate demand for payment.
n.
1. An almost neutral brownish gray to dull grayish brown.
2. A horse of this color.
3.
a. A mayfly in its first winged stage.
b. An fishing fly that imitates such an insect.

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