Din
WordNet
noun
(1) The act of making a noisy disturbance
(2) A loud harsh or strident noise
verb
(3) Instill (into a person) by constant repetition
"He dinned the lessons into his students"
(4) Make a resonant sound, like artillery
"His deep voice boomed through the hall"
WiktionaryText
Etymology 1
From , from Germanic *duniz. Akin to Old Norse , Sanskrit , to make a noise, to roar.
Etymology 2
From , from Germanic *dunjan, from the same stem as Etymology 1, above.
Verb
- To be filled with sound; to resound.
- To assail with loud noise.
- To repeat continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody.
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- 2003: His mother had dinned The Whole Duty of Man into him in early childhood — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 183)
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- To make a din.
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