dun

[US]/dʌn/
[UK]/dʌn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. A person who demands payment or urges for something to be done
adj. Somewhat dark; having a dark brown color
vt. Urge or press for payment or action
Word Forms
Past Tensedunned
Pluralduns
Past Participledunned
Third Person Singularduns
Present Participledunning

Phrases & Collocations

dun brown

dun horse

dun clouds

Example Sentences

dun sb. for payment

when the dun evening comes.

The dunes roll to the sea.

sand dunes that were upbuilt by the wind.

a line of sand dunes concealed the distant sea.

If you keep on dun ning , I'll never pay.

They take me for a dun, peer out from a coign of vantage.

The boy galloped over the dunes barefoot.

Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.

Bad Lands National Park, Mount Rushmore, Black Hills, Devils Tower National Monument, Rocky Mountain National Park, Great Sand Dunes National Park, and Capulin Volcano National Monument.

Abstract Microstructure evolution of hypereutectoid steel duning cold rolling with different reduction rate (from 0 to 81.6%)was studied by SEM and TEM.

FOR all its paradisal waters, golden dunes and swanky “eco-lodges”, life in Kenya's coastal district of Kiunga, just a few miles from the border with Somalia, is hard.

Cao Xing, among the soldiers, sneakingly drew his bow and, sighting his target well, shot Xiahou Dun in his left eye.

The Yakou beach on the right side of the typhoon track was rather stable, with only a slight silting in the belt of middle tide besides erodedm manmade dunes in the landward backshore.

It receives its name from the echoing Shhhh that the sand makes as you step on its surface.Visitors here can try camel rides, can parasail, can slide the dunes or simply build sand castles.

Real-world Examples

I had forgotten that this is the field in which the farmer keeps that vicious dun cow!

Source: British Original Language Textbook Volume 3

Dun dun duh—who the heck is that?

Source: Radio Laboratory

William McKinley's campaign manager was an industrialist himself and he went, essentially hat in head, around Wall Street " dunning them" .

Source: Legend of American Business Tycoons

He offered his wares with furious energy, calling the passing customers to his counter and dunning them with his politeness.

Source: Women's Paradise (Middle)

Cash on the line for him. Rich bitches who had to be dunned for their milk bills would pay him right now.

Source: Goodbye, My Love (Part 1)

My son made a careful examination and sketch for me of a dun Belgian cart-horse with a double stripe on each shoulder and with leg-stripes.

Source: On the Origin of Species

So once again, this would be x1 plus x2, plus dun, dun, dun, plus x lower case n, divided by lowercase n.

Source: Khan Academy: Statistics (Video Version)

But in the long run, which is going to bring us more happiness-forcing ourselves to live within a tight budget, or having dunning letters in the mail and creditors pounding on the front door?

Source: The virtues of human nature.

In all parts of the world these stripes occur far oftenest in duns and mouse-duns; by the term dun a large range of colour is included, from one between brown and black to a close approach to cream colour.

Source: On the Origin of Species

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