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noun

force; power: By dint of hard work she became head of the company.

a dent.

Archaic. a blow; stroke.

verb (used with object)

to make a dent or dents in.

to impress or drive in with force.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English dynt; cognate with Old Norse dyntr

Related forms

dint·less, adjective

Synonyms
1. effort, strain, exertion, struggle.

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Example Sentences

By dint of much perserverance and a high degree of skill.

On some accounts, it has simply addled their brains, destroying their powers of concentration forever by dint of distraction.

The authorities have kept the plates spinning by dint of an enormous effort and some unprecedented monetary measures.

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By dint of much perserverance and a high degree of skill.

On some accounts, it has simply addled their brains, destroying their powers of concentration forever by dint of distraction.

The authorities have kept the plates spinning by dint of an enormous effort and some unprecedented monetary measures.

India, by dint of population and burgeoning industry, makes sense too.

She began the work by mere chance, but she has made a success of it by dint of hard work and attention to scientific detail.

His access to such elite circles was by dint of his manners, his intellect, and his uncanny ability to fit in.

There are examples of design that come to mean much to us by dint of being intelligent, elegant and appropriate.

By dint of its unconquerable audacity and an unscrupulous dissemination of puffs, it fosters schemes.

It was no mean trick, and he accomplished it by dint of his mastery of his craft.

And by dint of its popularity and awards, one the audience is buying.

Our multimillionaires and billionaires achieved their wealth by dint of individual effort and superiority.

Boas does not attempt by sheer dint of visualization to present an.

China is a big economy largely by dint of its population.

It is mostly a nation that has triumphed by dint of organised work, social dialogue and good government.

Baker overcomes a weakness in characterization by sheer dint of storyline and.

The question now is whether as president he can bring about a change in urban fashion by sheer dint of example.

Other general stores are prospering only by dint of location, hard work and revised inventories.

They also say she has improved as a politician by dint of the scrutiny she has endured over the last year.

He sank into a long depression, recovering by dint of medication and a dramatic spiritual awakening.

It would take five more years to understand the spurious signals and retrieve the gravity data by dint of an effort that.

Kroning, a fan by dint of driving teenage girls around with the car radio blasting.

Hawkinson earns his measure of it by dint of his work's boyish charm and kooky ingenuity.

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dint (dɪnt)

—n
1.	by dint of by means or use of: by dint of hard work
2.	archaic a blow or a mark made by a blow

—vb
3.	(tr) to mark with dints

—n, —vb
4.	a variant of dent

[Old English dynt; related to Old Norse dyttr blow]

'dintless

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

dint

O.E. dynt "blow dealt in fighting" (especially by a sword), from P.Gmc. *duntiz. Phrase by dint of ... "by force of, by means of," is early 14c.

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Idioms & Phrases

dint

see by dint of.