dint

English

Alternative forms

• dunt

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”). More at dent.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dɪnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

dint (countable and uncountable; plural dints)

1. (obsolete) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:

     Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd [...].

2. Force, power; especially in by dint of.
3. A dent.

Derived terms

• by dint of

Translations

a dent

• Russian: след (ru) (sléd) m, вмятина (ru) (vmjátina) f, отпечаток (ru) (otpečátok) m

Verb

dint (third-person singular simple present dints, present participle dinting, simple past and past participle dinted)

1. To dent
   • 1915, Jeffery Farnol, Beltane The Smith^[1]:

     And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God!

   • 1854, W. Harrison Ainsworth, The Star-Chamber, Volume 2^[2]:

     Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot.

Anagrams

• NDTI, tind

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Middle English

Noun

dint (plural s)

1. dent
2. blow, stroke
   • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,

     Ayein his dyntez sore ye may not yow defende.

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Walloon

Etymology

From Old French dent, from Late Latin *dente, from Classical Latin dēns, dentem.

Noun

dint f

1. (anatomy) tooth