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
For months Turkey has been living hand-to-mouth, paying such urgent bills as last June's oil-company duns out of current earnings.
From Time Magazine Archive
By last week four nations were quarreling over the spoils, as duns were submitted to the perplexed Rumanians by: > Germany, which claimed title by right of conquest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Being at that time of the year when one's creditors change their outward form and become duns, I am obliged to see where I can find anything available to meet them.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey
