dun

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. horse of a dull brownish grey color (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
saddle horse, riding horse, mount
2. a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
- she wore dun
• Syn:
greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn
• Hypernyms:
light brown

II - verb

1. treat cruelly
- The children tormented the stuttering teacher
• Syn:
torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, frustrate
• Derivationally related forms:
frustration (for: frustrate), crucifixion (for: crucify), bedevilment (for: bedevil), torment (for: torment), tormenter (for: torment), tormentor (for: torment)
• Hypernyms:
harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy,
chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke
• Hyponyms:
madden, hamstring, tease, badger, pester,
bug, beleaguer, persecute, oppress
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
2. persistently ask for overdue payment
- The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone
• Hypernyms:
demand
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
3. cure by salting
- dun codfish
• Topics:
cooking, cookery, preparation
• Hypernyms:
cure
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
4. make a dun color
• Hypernyms:
darken
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something

III - adjective

of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color (Freq. 1)
- the dun and dreary prairie
• Similar to:
chromatic

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn, torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, frustrate