dun
verb (used with object)
to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
duns
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present tense formof dun (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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This unexpected shape cuts through the woods’ muted greens and duns, stirring hikers from ambling reveries, reminding them that they move through forests that once held much mightier trees.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
There are now more than a thousand designs, with threads blending in the traditional dull duns, purples and ochres of the Scottish Highlands, to brash patterns with bright reds, pinks and yellows.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012
The trout might appear to be taking bluewing olive duns, but they could actually be eating cripples, emergers, floating nymphs, or something else entirely, like spent trico spinners floating flush with the surface.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since the Hoover Moratorium ended in 1932, the U. S. State Department has been sending semiannual duns to those governments which have defaulted on debts totaling $11,000,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dunce, duns, n. one slow at learning: a stupid person.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
