Definitions for dint

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Spelling: [dint]
IPA: /dɪnt/

Dint is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in dint (dint).

Definitions for dint

noun

  1. force; power:
  2. a dent.
  3. Archaic. a blow; stroke.

verb (used with object)

  1. to make a dent or dents in.
  2. to impress or drive in with force.

Origin of dint

before 900; Middle English; Old English dynt; cognate with Old Norse dyntr

Examples for dint

This was run into the corner, and Tom o' dint and fiddle were seated on top of it.

Though he made it back to the top by dint of talent and hard work, he remained a deep-dyed cynic for the rest of his life.

Excellence in art, as in everything else, can only be achieved by dint of painstaking labour.

We shall enter it as conquerors, by dint of producing masterpieces.

Both state and federal rulings have imposed additional punishments on women by dint of the fact they were pregnant.

Her potential was recognized early on, and by dint of her performance and loyalty, she ‘came through’ for her former sponsors.

He amused them and made himself their idol by dint of alternate flattery and blame.

The price of it was three sous, but, by dint of bargaining, she got it for two.

In that battle for sovereign expression, by dint of diplomacy, organization and military acumen, the Zionists won handily.

The mountains were theirs by right, by dint of deed and hefty mortgage.

Word Value for dint
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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