1. past tense of din; made a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise
2. past tense of din; repeatedly told or reminded someone of something in an annoying way
Usage: often used with 'into' (e.g., 'dinned into')

Examples

• The alarm dinned loudly in my ears until I woke up.
• The construction noise dinned throughout the neighborhood all day.
• She dinned the importance of education into her children's heads.
• His complaints dinned in my ears for hours.
• The bells dinned across the city at noon.
• They dinned the same message into us repeatedly during training.