dung

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noun

ˈdəŋ

Synonyms of dung next

: the feces of an animal : manure

: something repulsive

dungy

ˈdəŋ-ē

adjective

dung

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verb

dunged; dunging; dungs

transitive verb

: to fertilize or dress with manure

intransitive verb

: defecate

Examples of dung in a Sentence

Noun researchers tracked the wild gorillas by following the piles of dung

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Indigenous peoples across the Americas valued adobe — a composite of earth, water, and other organic materials like straw or dung — as a preferred construction material for its ability to do the same. —

Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023 Periodically, Banda opened the door of the jeep to decipher animal prints or dung, furrowing his brow like an archaeologist studying hieroglyphs. —

Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023 The documentary also captures the band’s homecoming concert at Madison Square Garden later that summer, where Yippie Abbie Hoffman set fire to a pile of horse dung to protest, a scene recreated in the film with a giant turd landing on Bobby Colomby’s drum kit during the show. —

Roy Trakin, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023 Constant is working at the scale of the Mexican muralists while echoing something of Chris Ofili’s early dazzling dotted paintings with elephant dung attached. —

Vulture, 7 Mar. 2023 Though the work can be dangerous (face-offs with poachers are rare these days, but not unheard of) the vast majority of the unit’s time is spent observing the creatures, their habitat — and their dung — from afar. —

Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023 Ocean energy: waves and currents that produce electricity or heat Bioenergy: uses wood, charcoal, and dung to produce heat, power, and agricultural crops. —

Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 26 Apr. 2023 And there is probably less pig dung available for dung beetles. —

Bydennis Normile, science.org, 25 Apr. 2023 Even their droppings were handy — their dung was fuel for burning. —

Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022

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 See More

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