din
/dɪn/ verb C2- To make a din, to resound.
- (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound.
- To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise.
- To repeat (something) continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody, or (sometimes particularly) to impress or instill (it, into someone).
He/she/it dins · Past dinned · Past participle dinned · -ing form dinning
Verb forms
- Base form
- din
- He/she/it
- dins
- Past
- dinned
- Past participle
- dinned
- -ing form
- dinning
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This prospect of fresh festivity redoubled the hilarity of the guests to such a degree, that the elder Dantès, who, at the commencement of the repast, had commented upon the silence that prevailed, now found it difficult, amid the general din of voices, to obtain a moment’s tranquillity in which to drink to the health and prosperity of the bride and bridegroom.
Inspector,” continued the governor, “I can tell you the story as well as he, for it has been dinned in my ears for the last four or five years.”
Mowgli stood as quietly as he could, peering through the open work and listening to the furious din of the fight round the Black Panther--the yells and chatterings and scufflings, and Bagheera’s deep, hoarse cough as he backed and bucked and twisted and plunged under the heaps of his enemies.
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