Stint

/stɪnt/ · verb

Meaning

(archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
3. (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
4. (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
5. To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
6. (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
7. A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
8. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

Example Sentences

We mon haue payne that neuer shall stynt

O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife […]

And stint thou too, I pray thee.

The damsel stinted in her song.

The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.

I shall not in the least go about to extenuate the Latitude of it: or to stint it only to the Produćtion of Weeds, of Thorns, Thisiles, and other the less useful Kinds of Plants

She stints them in their meals.

Schepisi makes it clear that the outlandish rules, the strict self-discipline, the body hatred, and erotophobia is destructive; it is doing no one any good. But since he is also presenting a (somewhat) loving evocation of his own past, this measure gets soft peddled. Worse, it stints the film's analysis, and by not being totally honest, causes and plays upon some dangerous misunderstanding.

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• stints
• stinting
• stinted

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