What does dint mean?
Dint means Especially in by dint of: force, power..
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/dɪnt/ · noun
Especially in by dint of: force, power..
O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity
It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.
[D]epe wͭ dynt the ſword enforced furſt / had ranſakt through his ribs ⁊ ſwete whyte breſt at once had burſt.
His hands had made a dint, and hurt his maid; / Explored her limb by limb, and feared to find / So rude a gripe had left a livid mark behind.
[A]nd read the naked shield, […] Of every dint a sword had beaten in it, / And every scratch a lance had made upon it
Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd […]
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.
Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot.
Use dint when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dint means Especially in by dint of: force, power..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity
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