| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  d n |
| NOUN: | A jumble of loud, usually discordant sounds. See synonyms at noise. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: dinned, din·ning, dins
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To stun with deafening noise. 2. To instill by wearying repetition: dinned the Latin conjugations into the students' heads. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To make a loud noise. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English dine, from Old English dyne.
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