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Moreover, in 2020, communication from the federal government about the pandemic really dung the public wrong.—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 4 July 2021 Hyenas will eat practically anything---from putrid corpses to dung---so donkeys are pretty much a treat.—Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2012 See All Example Sentences for dung
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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The first known use of dung was
before the 12th century