dun

dun is a 3-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, transitive/intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A mound or small hill. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A mound or small hill.
2. transitive verb. To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.
3. transitive/intransitive verb. To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
4. noun. One who duns; a dunner.
5. noun. An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
6. adjective. Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
7. noun. horse of a dull brownish grey color
8. noun. a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color

   "she wore dun"

   Synonyms: fawn

9. verb. make a dun color
10. verb. cure by salting

    "dun codfish"

11. verb. persistently ask for overdue payment

    "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"

12. verb. treat cruelly

    "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"

    Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, frustrate, rag, torment

13. adjective. of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color

    "the dun and dreary prairie"

Synonyms

fawn, bedevil, crucify, frustrate, rag, torment

Common word forms

duns, dunal, dunes, dunned, dunner, dunness, dunnest, dunning

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