Thesaurus: dint

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1. n. A blow; a stroke.
2. n. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
3. n. Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of.
4. v. t. To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent.
5. n. interchangeable with ‘means’ in the expression ‘by means of’
6. 1. A blow; a stroke. [Obs.] "Mortal dint." Milton. "Like thunder's dint." Fairfax. 2. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. Dryden. Every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]. Tennyson. 3. Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of. Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity. Shak. It was by dint of passing strength That he moved the massy stone at length. Sir W. Scott. To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent. Donne. Tennyson.
7. To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; todent. Donne. Tennyson.
8. n:100 n. interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by means of'