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dint

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4 lettersPronunciation /dɪnt/Part of speech nounSorted dintStarts with DEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. interchangeable with ‘means’ in the expression ‘by means of’

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity
  • It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.
  • [D]epe wͭ dynt the ſword enforced furſt / had ranſakt through his ribs ⁊ ſwete whyte breſt at once had burſt.

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