dint

Meanings

Noun

• A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
• Force, power; especially in by dint of.
• The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.

Verb

• To dent.

Origin

• From Middle English dint, dent, dunt, from Old English dynt, from Proto-Germanic *duntiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- ("to strike, hit"). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt, Icelandic dyntr. More at dent.