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Synonyms for dunned


Grammar : Verb
Spell : duhn
Phonetic Transcription : dʌn

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Définition of dunned

Origin :
  • "to insist on payment of debt," 1620s, perhaps related to dunnen "to sound, resound, make a din" (c.1200, dialectal variant of din), or shortened from dunkirk (c.1600) "privateer," a private vessel licensed to attack enemy ships during wartime, from Dunkirk, French port from which they sailed. The oldest theory traces it to a Joe Dun, supposedly a London bailiff famous for catching defaulters. Related: Dunned; dunning. As a noun from 1620s.
  • As in worry : verb be or make anxious, troubled
  • As in bill : verb charge money for goods, services
  • As in demand : verb ask strongly for something
  • As in hassle : verb bother, harass
  • As in importune : verb demand, insist
Example sentences :
  • Twenty-five dollars, and, by heavens, he dunned me for it just after we started.
  • Extract from : « The Daughter of a Magnate » by Frank H. Spearman
  • I can stand to be dunned once in awhile, but I don't like to be frowned at.
  • Extract from : « Old Ebenezer » by Opie Read
  • Men are not dunned so rigorously when they have just fallen into their fortunes.
  • Extract from : « Ralph the Heir » by Anthony Trollope
  • Bennoch has been dunned for his gas-bill at Blackheath (only a pound or two) and has paid it.
  • Extract from : « Hawthorne and His Circle » by Julian Hawthorne
  • The profanity fell upon Nevins from both the duns and the dunned.
  • Extract from : « The Imitator » by Percival Pollard
  • And Wyeth was one of these creatures who could not stand to be dunned.
  • Extract from : « The Forged Note » by Oscar Micheaux
  • He had never borrowed from a friend or been dunned by an importunate tradesman.
  • Extract from : « The Valiants of Virginia » by Hallie Erminie Rives
  • Some months after, he dunned his neighbor for his pay for a cheese.
  • Extract from : « Lectures on Language » by William S. Balch
  • He owes a lot here and there and has to be dunned frequently even for small amounts.
  • Extract from : « The Hills of Refuge » by Will N. Harben
  • I'd rather have my reputation than riches, for my part, and before I make an end of this--who ever dunned me twice?
  • Extract from : « The Satyricon, Complete » by Petronius Arbiter

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