dinning 1 of 2

adjective

as in noisy
making loud, confused, and usually unharmonious sounds dinning honks and beeps arose from cars stuck in the massive traffic jam

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dinning

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verb

present participle of din
as in repeating
to say or state again safety lessons dinned into us over and over

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  1. noisy
  2. repeating
Adjective
  • Lucy refurbishes their noisy slab arrangements into massive walls of buzzing texture, like a cross between a fashionable rave and a final boss battle.
    — H.D. Angel, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2026
  • In a place where others might have heard a gunshot, or the noisy retreat of a car on three good tires.
    — Thomas Lake, AJC.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of noisy
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  • One of the most important lessons from my coaching career is that repeating the same instruction louder or more often is not the same as adapting your coaching.
    — Irma Davarashvili, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • These materials mimic important structural features of quasicrystals while having a repeating crystal structure that can be studied experimentally.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of repeating
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“Dinning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dinning. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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