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Definition of dun:
- A mound or small hill.
- An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
- Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
- One who duns; a dunner.
- To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
- To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.
Synonyms:
blue, berate, reproof, blast, fawn, fox, ultimatum, lambast, importunity, remonstrate, chafe, annoy, get at, baby-blue, taunt, bilk, black, beg, bedevil, rack, demand, twit, request, rag, requisition, claim, nettle, ask for, amber, have words, crucify, grayish brown, bait, subdue, irritate, scotch, trounce, spoil, order, invite, thwart, bawl out, cod, plead, appeal, scold, befuddle, dress down, avocado, chew out, devil, chromatic, call on the carpet, chew up, discombobulate, razz, torture, chide, savage, call down, bluish, rally, alabaster, gravel, tantalize, rebuke, ride, dull, reprimand, lecture, confound, confuse, insist on something, torment, pillory, lambaste, jaw, rile, sallow, azure, beige, vex, throw, baffle, excruciate, foil, fuddle, greyish brown, amethyst, cross, tantalise, nark, tease, take to task, frustrate, get to, bother, mortify.
Usage examples:
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So I didn't object, but the messige ain't finished yet, and the Lord only knows when it will be dun.
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The dun struggles on to the end of a twelve- mile stage, and then the valley ends and the full blast from the plateau meets them.
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But he could be got to write to no one, said my Lord, with kind exaggeration; nor will he receive letters, for fear he may get a dun.