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darned

* {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Kate Langley Bosher, title=The Man in Lonely Land, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Take the durned thing away. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Fannie Hurst, title=Every Soul Hath Its Song, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=I liked your nerve, too, durned if I didn't!" }}

* {{quote-news, year=1995, date=April 28, author=Mary Shen Barnidge, title=Zara Spook and Other Lures, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=All four are hoping to enjoy some quiet time at the women's bass fishing tournament, but durned if wimpy Talmadge and grumpy Mel don't tag along and upset everything. }}

Adjective

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(geology) Featuring or formed into dunes.

* 1912 , William Mumford Gregory, Geological report on Arenac County , Issue 11, page 76,

The banks are duned and are nearly 40 feet above the lake.

* 1971 , , The Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society , Volume 22, page 153,

These are related to positioning of the meter array on the form of the duned bed.

* 1975 , Joel S. Watkins, Michael L. Bottino, Marie Morisawa, Our Geological Environment , page 226,

Duned coasts appear where sand accumulates on a beach faster than the waves can move the material alongshore.