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dint

Pronunciation: /dɪnt/

The English word “dint” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Especially in by dint of: force, power.
  2. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
  3. A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.

verb

  1. To dent.

Etymology

From Middle English dint, dent, dünt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe; the mark left by a blow; the sound or noise made by a blow, thud”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to strike, hit”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt, Icelandic dyntr (“a dint”). Doublet of dent.

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