Dung Definition

dŭng
dungs
noun
dungs
Animal excrement.
Webster's New World
Manure.
American Heritage Medicine
Filth.
Webster's New World
Something foul or abhorrent.
American Heritage

(countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb
dungs
To fertilize (land) with manure.
American Heritage
To spread or cover with dung, as in fertilizing.
Webster's New World

(calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.

Wiktionary

(intransitive) To void excrement.

Wiktionary

(obsolete) Past participle of ding.

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Other Word Forms of Dung

Noun

Singular:
dung
Plural:
dungs

Origin of Dung

  • Middle English from Old English

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English, from Old English.

    From Wiktionary

  • See ding

    From Wiktionary

  • unknown

    From Wiktionary

Dung Sentence Examples

  • Maintain the heat in hotbeds and pits by means of fresh dung linings.

  • Toward evening of the third day we even found fairly fresh dung.

  • Tracks of forest buffalo have also been seen once (and dung too ).

  • In the middle is a stove where they burn the yak dung.

  • Many bacteria are known which are capable of denitrification, some of them being abundant in fresh dung and upon old straw.

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Words Starting With

DDUDUN

Words Ending With

GNGUNG

Unscrambles

dung

Words Starting With D and Ending With G

Starts With D & Ends With GStarts With DU & Ends With GStarts With D & Ends With NG

Word Length

4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With D4 Letter Words Ending With G