Meaning
4 senses(transitive)To fertilize with dung.
düngen
удобрятьudobrjatʹ, унавоживатьunavoživatʹ, унаво́зитьunavózitʹ
угно́юватиuhnójuvaty, угної́тиuhnojíty
fertilize or dress with dung
(transitive)To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
(intransitive)To release dung: to defecate.
defecate; used of animals
(colloquial)To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
Examples
180 sentencesFyodor brought a dung beetle home.
Do dung beetles carry tiny compasses?
Fyodor finds dung beetles so cute.
The dung ball is pretty dry.
Fyodor picked the dung beetle up.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”),From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-West Germanic *dungu, from Proto-Germanic *dungō (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”). Superseded non-native Middle English fen (“dung, excrement, filth”), from Old French fien, fiente (“dung, manure”).
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Forms
dungs, dunging, dunged, dungedSynonyms
1 synonymsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle