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dun

noun

1 dun

Horse of a dull brownish grey color.

Roget 805: credit, trust, tick, score, tally, account.    letter of credit, circular note; duplicate; mortgage, lien, debenture, paper credit, floating capital; ... show more

2 dun

A color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color:
— She wore dun.

synonyms: fawn, grayish brown, greyish brown.

verb

1 dun

Treat cruelly.

synonyms: bedevil, crucify, frustrate, rag, torment.

Roget 765: request, ask; beg, crave, sue, pray, petition, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask; beg leave, beg a boon; ... show more

2 dun

Persistently ask for overdue payment.

3 dun

Cure by salting.

4 dun

Make a dun color.

adjective

1 dun

Of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color.

Roget 422: dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark 421.    faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty etc. ... show more

Roget 429: uncolored etc. (color) etc. 428; colorless, achromatic, aplanatic; etiolate, etiolated; hueless, pale, pallid; palefaced, ... show more

Roget 432: gray, grey; iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber, sad, pearly, russet, roan; ... show more


Moby thesaurus: account, annoy, apply pressure, bay, bayard, bedevil, beige, beleaguer, beset, besiege, bill, bill collector, bill of account, bill of lading, blandish, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, buckskin ... show more.

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