dun
verb (used with object)
to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
has been dunning
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present perfect progressiveof dun (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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"She has been dunning me for two hundred francs, but she can't screw ten out of me—not even tenpence."
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
You know that greasy fellow who has been dunning you so of late.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
Dilly has been dunning me to see Fanny Manley; but I have not yet been able to do it.
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
