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Dunned

Dun \Dun\ (d[u^]n), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Dunned (d[u^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dunning (d[u^]n"n[i^]ng).] [AS. dyne noise, dynian to make a noise, or fr. Icel. dynr, duna, noise, thunder, duna to thunder; the same word as E. din. [root]74. See Din.] To ask or beset (e.g., a debtor), for payment; to urge importunately.

Hath she sent so soon to dun?
--Swift.

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dunned

vb. (en-pastdun)

WordNet
dun

  1. adj. of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color; "the dun and dreary prairie"

  2. [also: dunning, dunned, dunnest, dunner]

dun

  1. v. treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, frustrate]

  2. persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"

  3. cure by salting; "dun codfish"

  4. make a dun color

  5. [also: dunning, dunned, dunnest, dunner]

dun

  1. n. horse of a dull brownish gray color

  2. a color varying around light grayish brown; "she wore a dun raincoat" [syn: grayish brown, greyish brown, fawn]

  3. [also: dunning, dunned, dunnest, dunner]

dunned

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Usage examples of "dunned".

They were telegraphic messenger boys (a group about to be rendered technically obsolescent), who swept up around the phone office, dunned customers for bills, and made phone connections on the switchboard, all on the cheap.

Specifics will follow in a subsequent note, but you should now be advised that Miss Bledsoe's Hughes contract is legally voided: she can be sued in civil court, dunned for financial damages and blackballed from future studio film appearances under various clauses of her Hughes contract.