| dun | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. dun | horse of a dull brownish grey color. |
| ~ mount, riding horse, saddle horse | a lightweight horse kept for riding only. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. dun, fawn, grayish brown, greyish brown | a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color.; "she wore dun" |
| ~ light brown | a brown that is light but unsaturated. |
| v. (emotion) | 3. bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment | treat cruelly.; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" |
| ~ madden | drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves. |
| ~ beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke | annoy continually or chronically.; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" |
| ~ hamstring | make ineffective or powerless.; "The teachers were hamstrung by the overly rigid schedules" |
| ~ badger, beleaguer, bug, pester, tease | annoy persistently.; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer" |
| ~ persecute, oppress | cause to suffer.; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union" |
| v. (communication) | 4. dun | persistently ask for overdue payment.; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone" |
| ~ demand | request urgently and forcefully.; "The victim's family is demanding compensation"; "The boss demanded that he be fired immediately"; "She demanded to see the manager" |
| v. (change) | 5. dun | cure by salting.; "dun codfish" |
| ~ cookery, cooking, preparation | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| ~ cure | prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve.; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay" |
| v. (change) | 6. dun | make a dun color. |
| ~ darken | make dark or darker.; "darken a room" |
| adj. | 7. dun | of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color.; "the dun and dreary prairie" |
| ~ chromatic | being or having or characterized by hue. |
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