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Fists battered violently on the panels, and just as the din was at its height the helmets of two policemen appeared mounting the stairs.

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  1. noun A jumble of loud, usually discordant sounds. See Synonyms at noise.
  2. transitive verb To stun with deafening noise.
  3. transitive verb To instill by wearying repetition: dinned the Latin conjugations into the students' heads.

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  • His yell being quite in keeping with his body, the din was so tremendous that Bounce roared Stop yer noise, ye buffalo But Waller didn't hear him; so March Marston effected the desired object by stuffing the corner of a blanket into his mouth and smothering his face in its folds Bertram's sketch-book was now examined, and for nearly an hour proved a source of the most intense interest and amusement to these unsophisticated trappers. —  The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
  • It was Rukn-ud-din, and of the two companies which he led one was composed of Rajputs, and the other of the faithful remnant of the Agpur bodyguard. —  The Path to Honour
  • Near the ground the din was maddening, and the bites of the ravenous creatures were sufficient to cause death The wily Jaguar avoided the intolerable annoyance and danger by seeking a partly-fallen, leaning tree-trunk, or a thick branch, fifteen or twenty feet above the ground. —  The Black Phantom
  • The sportsmen drive slowly through the wood by night, and all the while the pig is making a terrible din--a din that can be heard a mile or two away. —  Chatterbox, 1906
  • To concentrate in the midst of such a din was almost impossible. —  Men of Affairs
 

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English dine, from Old English dyne.

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  1. from Middle English dyn, properly and usually in two syllables, dyne, dune, dine, dene, from Anglo-Saxon dyne (once dyn), a loud noise (comp. eorth-dyne, an earthquake), = Icelandic dynr, a din, = Swedish dån, a din, = Danish dön, rumble, booming; cf. Sanskrit dhuni, roaring, a torrent, dhvani, a sound, din. See the verb.
  2. from Middle English dinnen, dynnen, dunnen, dinien, dynien, dunien, intransitive, from Anglo-Saxon dynian, make a noise, resound, = Old Saxon dunian, rumble, = Icelandic dynja, pour, rattle down, like hail or rain (cf. duna, thunder), = Swedish dåna = Danish döne, rumble, boom; cf. Sanskritdhvan, roar, sound, buzz. See the noun.
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