spun

[spuhn]

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of spin.

adjective

1. formed by or as by spinning. spinning.

spun

/ spʌn /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of spin

adjective

1. formed or manufactured by spinning

   spun gold

   spun glass

Other Word Forms

• half-spun adjective
• unspun adjective
• well-spun adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of spun¹

First recorded in 1480–90, for the adjective

Example Sentences

And when he reached for the wall, he spun around to look at the clock: 20.89.

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She married that expertise with the kind of hardscrabble, up-by-her-bootstraps backstory that a calculating political consultant might have spun from whole cloth, had it not been so.

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But on social media, amateur investors spun this dilution into a potential positive for the stock.

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But according to Puech, this was all a lie—one of many Freymond spun over the years to create an elaborate fiction around his client.

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Mr. Mamdani’s supporters have spun a romantic narrative around him and the organization he has called his “political home.”

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