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Adjective dun has 1 sense
  1. dun - of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color; "the dun and dreary prairie"
    Antonym:     achromatic (indirect, via chromatic)
,Noun dun has 2 senses
  1. dun - horse of a dull brownish gray color
    --1 is a kind of     saddle horse, riding horse, mount
    Derived form: verb dun4
  2. dun, grayish brown, greyish brown, fawn - a color varying around light grayish brown; "she wore a dun raincoat"
    --2 is a kind of light brown
    Derived form: verb dun4
,Verb dun has 4 senses
  1. torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate - treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
    --1 is one way to harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  2. dun - persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"
    --2 is one way to     demand
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  3. dun - cure by salting; "dun codfish"
    --3 is one way to     cure
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. dun - make a dun color
    --4 is one way to     darken
    Derived forms: noun dun2, noun dun1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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