dun
verb (used with object)
to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
were dunning
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past progressiveof dun.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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His fourth wife was another beauty queen, Elaine Mahnken, who later recalled, “While they were dunning him for bills, he’d be out buying two new Jaguars.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2014
To tell me that Ruby and Golden were dunning you out of your life, when you never owed them a stiver!
From Between the Dark and the Daylight by Richard Marsh
They were dunning letters for money lent, most of them from usurers.
