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contraction
Pronunciation spelling of didn’t.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling
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noun
Especially in by dint of: force, power.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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verb
To dent.
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noun
interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by means of'
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: means, agency, way
History
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.
From Middle English dinten, from the noun. Compare Old Norse dynta.
Across languages
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
