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punned

/pʌnd/

punned is the simple past and past participle of pun.

Meaning of pun

Verb

pun (third-person singular simple present puns, present participle punning, simple past and past participle punned)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
    • He would pun thee into shivers with his fist.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.
    • We punned about the topic until all around us groaned.

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Words that rhyme with punned

Questions about punned

What is punned the simple past and past participle of?
Punned is the simple past and past participle of pun.
How do you pronounce punned?
Punned is pronounced /pʌnd/.

Words near punned in the dictionary

  1. punnable
  2. punnaga
  3. punnage
  4. punnai
  5. punnais
  6. punned
  7. punner
  8. punners
  9. punnery
  10. punnet
  11. punnets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: punned (page history and authors); pun (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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