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DUN
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Irregular inflected forms: dunned , dunner , dunnest , dunning
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Horse of a dull brownish grey color
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dun" is a kind of...):
mount; riding horse; saddle horse (a lightweight horse kept for riding only)
Derivation:
dun (make a dun color)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
Example:
she wore dun
Synonyms:
dun; fawn; grayish brown; greyish brown
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("dun" is a kind of...):
light brown (a brown that is light but unsaturated)
Derivation:
dun (make a dun color)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color
Example:
the dun and dreary prairie
Classified under:
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they dun ... he / she / it duns
Past simple: dunned
Past participle: dunned
-ing form: dunning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make a dun color
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "dun" is one way to...):
darken (make dark or darker)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
dun (horse of a dull brownish grey color)
dun (a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cure by salting
Example:
dun codfish
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "dun" is one way to...):
cure (prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve)
Domain category:
cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Persistently ask for overdue payment
Example:
The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "dun" is one way to...):
demand (request urgently and forcefully)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 4
Meaning:
Treat cruelly
Example:
The children tormented the stuttering teacher
Synonyms:
bedevil; crucify; dun; frustrate; rag; torment
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "dun" is one way to...):
beset; chevvy; chevy; chivvy; chivy; harass; harry; hassle; molest; plague; provoke (annoy continually or chronically)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dun"):
madden (drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves)
hamstring (make ineffective or powerless)
badger; beleaguer; bug; pester; tease (annoy persistently)
oppress; persecute (cause to suffer)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
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