Done vs. Dun — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Done and Dun
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Done
Past participle of do1.
Dun
Of a dull greyish-brown colour
A dun cow
Done
Having been carried out or accomplished; finished
A done deed.
Dun
A dull greyish-brown colour.
Done
Cooked adequately.
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Dun
A horse with a sandy or sandy-grey coat, black mane, tail, and lower legs, and a dark dorsal stripe.
Done
Socially acceptable
Spitting on the street is just not done in polite society.
Dun
A subadult mayfly, which has drab coloration and opaque wings.
Done
(Informal) Totally worn out; exhausted.
Dun
A debt collector or an insistent creditor.
Done
Having completed or finished an activity.
He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done."
They were done playing and were picking up the toys when he arrived.
Dun
A stone-built fortified settlement in Scotland or Ireland, of a kind built from the late Iron Age to the early Middle Ages. The word is a frequent place-name element in Scotland and Ireland.
Done
(of an activity or task) Completed or finished.
I'll text you when the movie's done.
Dun
Make persistent demands on (someone), especially for payment of a debt
After he left Oxford he was frequently dunned for his debts
Done
(of food) Ready, fully cooked.
As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.
Dun
To importune (a debtor) for payment
A dunning letter.
Done
Being exhausted or fully spent.
When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.
Dun
One that duns.
Done
Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
He is done, after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.
Dun
An importunate demand for payment.
Done
Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.
I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done!
What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up!
Dun
An almost neutral brownish gray to dull grayish brown.
Done
Inflection of do
I have done my work.
Dun
A horse of this color.
Done
; did.
Dun
A mayfly in its first winged stage.
Done
Used in forming the perfective aspect; have.
I woke up and found out she done left.
Dun
An fishing fly that imitates such an insect.
Done
(obsolete) do
Dun
A brownish grey colour.
Done
(slang) methadone
On the done
Dun
(countable) A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
Done
It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; - used elliptically.
Dun
An urgent request or demand of payment.
Done
Given; executed; issued; made public; - used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act.
Dun
(countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
Done
Having finished or arrived at completion;
Certain to make history before he's done
It's a done deed
After the treatment, the patient is through except for follow-up
Almost through with his studies
Dun
A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
Done
Cooked until ready to serve
Dun
An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
Dun
(archeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
Dun
A mound or small hill.
Dun
Of a brownish grey colour.
Dun
(transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
Dun
(transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
Dun
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Now, ya dun it!
Dun
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Dun
To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.
Dun
Imitating a deep bass note, such as that found in suspenseful music.
Dun
A mound or small hill.
Dun
One who duns; a dunner.
To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun.
Dun
An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
Dun
To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.
Dun
To ask or beset (e.g., a debtor), for payment; to urge importunately.
Hath she sent so soon to dun?
Dun
Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up.
Chill and dunFalls on the moor the brief November day.
Dun
Horse of a dull brownish gray color
Dun
A color varying around light grayish brown;
She wore a dun raincoat
Dun
Treat cruelly;
The children tormented the stuttering teacher
Dun
Persistently ask for overdue payment;
The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone
Dun
Cure by salting;
Dun codfish
Dun
Make a dun color
Dun
Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color;
The dun and dreary prairie
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