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Synonyms for dun
Noun
- 1. dun, saddle horse, riding horse, mount
- usage: horse of a dull brownish gray color
- 2. dun, grayish brown, greyish brown, fawn, light brown
- usage: a color varying around light grayish brown; "she wore a dun raincoat"
Verb
- 1. torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke
- usage: treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
- 2. dun, demand
- usage: persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"
- 3. dun, cure
- usage: cure by salting; "dun codfish"
- 4. dun, darken
- usage: make a dun color
Adjective
- 1. dun, chromatic (vs. achromatic)
- usage: of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color; "the dun and dreary prairie"
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