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Dinted vs Dirted - What's the difference?

dinted | dirted |

As verbs the difference between dinted and dirted

is that dinted is past tense of dint while dirted is simple past of dirt.

dinted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dint)

    • dint

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) dint, dent, . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

  • (label) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
  • *, I.i:
  • *:Much daunted with that dint , her sence was dazd.
  • * 1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), 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.
  • Force, power; especially in (by dint of).
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity.
  • *Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • *:It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.
  • The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
  • * (1809-1892)
  • *:every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]
  • :(Dryden)
    • Derived terms
    * by dint of

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dent
  • * {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Jeffery Farnol, title=Beltane The Smith, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God! }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1854, author=W. Harrison Ainsworth, title=The Star-Chamber, Volume 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot. }}

    Etymology 2

    Contraction

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    dirted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dirt)

    • dirt

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • soil or earth
  • A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
  • Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
    • The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
  • Meanness; sordidness.
  • * Melmoth
    • honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy
  • In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.

    • Derived terms

    * dirt bike * dirt nap * dirty * do someone dirt

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty