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You can make 13 words from dint according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dint

dint idnt dnit ndit indt nidt ditn idtn dtin tdin itdn tidn dnti ndti dtni tdni ntdi tndi intd nitd itnd tind ntid tnid

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word dint. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in dint.

Definitions and meaning of dint

dint

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪnt/
• (US)
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Etymology 1

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.

Alternative forms

• dunt

Noun

dint (countable and uncountable, plural dints)

1. (obsolete) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, xxxi:

     Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's dint, or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.

2. Force, power; especially in by dint of.
3. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.

Derived terms

• by dint of

Translations

Verb

dint (third-person singular simple present dints, present participle dinting, simple past and past participle dinted)

1. To dent.

Etymology 2

Contraction

dint

1. Pronunciation spelling of didn’t.

References

Anagrams

• I'dn't, NDTI, idn't, tind

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin dēns, dentem. Compare Italian dente, Romansch dent, Venetian dénte, Romanian dinte, French dent, Spanish diente.

Noun

dint m (plural dincj or dinčh)

1. tooth

Derived terms

• dintidure

Middle English

Alternative forms

• dent, dente, dinnt, dont, dount, dunt, dynt, dynte

Etymology

From Old English dynt, from Proto-West Germanic *dunti, from Proto-Germanic *duntiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dint/, /dɛnt/, /dunt/

Noun

dint (plural dintes or (early) dinten)

1. The landing of a weapon; a blow or stroke.
2. (by extension) Warfare, battle; the use of weaponry.
3. The strike, landing or force of a tool or other item hitting something.
4. The striking or noise of thunder; a thunderclap.
5. (rare) A strike with one's limbs or body.
6. (rare) An injury resulting from a weapon's impact.

Derived terms

• dinten

Descendants

• English: dent, dint, dunt
• Scots: dunt, dont, dynt, dint, dent

Further reading

• “dint, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-05.

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of di +‎ in

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dʲin͈t]

Article

dint

1. of/from the sg
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14^d10

Usage notes

Used before lenited s.

Romagnol

Pronunciation

• (Southeastern Romagnol):

• (Borderline Romagnol):

• (San Marino): IPA^(key): [ˈdiːn̥t]

Noun

dint m pl (San Marino)

1. plural of dèint (“tooth”)

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French dent, from Latin dēns, dentem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛ̃/

Noun

dint f

1. (anatomy) tooth