dunged; dunging; dungs
: to fertilize or dress with manure
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Examples of dung in a Sentence
Noun
researchers tracked the wild gorillas by following the piles of dung
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Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024
The Ujjwala Yojana has supplied subsidized cooking gas cylinders—a replacement for dung, firewood, and charcoal—to 83 million households.
—Sadanand Dhume, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2012
Moreover, in 2020, communication from the federal government about the pandemic really dung the public wrong.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 4 July 2021
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Noun
Even small shifts, like a 1 percent drop in water, could affect the patterns of elephants, those architects of the delta whose dung contains the seeds from which the palm islands grow.
—Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024
The Ujjwala Yojana has supplied subsidized cooking gas cylinders—a replacement for dung, firewood, and charcoal—to 83 million households.
—Sadanand Dhume, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
Verb
Hyenas will eat practically anything---from putrid corpses to dung---so donkeys are pretty much a treat.
—Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2012
Moreover, in 2020, communication from the federal government about the pandemic really dung the public wrong.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 4 July 2021
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“Dung.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dung. Accessed 26 Jun. 2024.
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