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Dint

//dɪnt// contraction, noun, verb

Definitions

Contraction

1
Pronunciation spelling of didn’t. alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling

Noun

1
Especially in by dint of: force, power. countable, uncountable
"O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity"
2
interchangeable with ‘means’ in the expression ‘by means of’ wordnet
3
The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. countable, uncountable
"[D]epe wͭ dynt the ſword enforced furſt / had ranſakt through his ribs ⁊ ſwete whyte breſt at once had burſt."
4
A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd […]"

Verb

1
To dent.
"Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English dinten, from the noun. Compare Old Norse dynta.

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