Associations to the word «Dint»

Wiktionary

DINT, noun. (obsolete) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
DINT, noun. Force, power; especially in by dint of.
DINT, noun. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
DINT, verb. To dent

Dictionary definition

DINT, noun. Interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by means of'.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne