spun

American  

[spuhn] / spʌn /

verb

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

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adjective

1. formed by or as by spinning. spinning.

spun British  

/ spʌn /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of spin

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adjective

1. formed or manufactured by spinning

   spun gold

   spun glass

Other Word Forms

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

Etymology

Origin of spun

First recorded in 1480–90, for the adjective

Example Sentences

I spun on my heels and saw her standing in the doorway.

From Literature

Netflix’s cash and stock offer values Warner’s streaming and studios business at $27.75 a share, with the Discovery cable assets being spun out to investors.

From Barron's

The stock has more than quadrupled since the company was spun out of General Electric, now GE Aerospace, in April 2024.

From Barron's

They developed a device to prevent the hair loss that often comes with chemotherapy, spun Luminate out in 2021 and took the company through Y Combinator’s accelerator program the same year.

From The Wall Street Journal

It also holds stock in four other companies, all of which were spun off from DuPont over the past 10 years.

From The Wall Street Journal