dint

名词 n. 动词 v. 缩写
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Especially in by dint of: force, power. countable,uncountable
    — O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity
  2. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. countable,uncountable
    — [D]epe wͭ dynt the ſword enforced furſt / had ranſakt through his ribs ⁊ ſwete whyte breſt at once had burſt.
  3. A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd […]
动词 v.
  1. To dent.
    — Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot.
缩写
  1. Pronunciation spelling of didn’t. alt-of,contraction,pronunciation-spelling

词形变化

dints plural dunt alternative dints present,singular,third-person dinting participle,present dinted participle,past dinted past dunt alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
by dint of dintless

词源

词源 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.
词源 2
From Middle English dinten, from the noun. Compare Old Norse dynta.
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