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Other meaning of Stint as a verb is to be miserly or ungenerous in offering or giving or providing.
Pronounced exactly as it is written – Stint {Listen to it here}
It comes from Old English Styntan meaning “To blunt“.
Can you connect the meaning of the root with the word?
Situational Uses / Sentences:
- He is returning to this country after a five-year stintin Hong Kong.
- For a really good mousse, one can’t stint on the chocolate. (Used as a verb with meaning of being miserly)
- The masses were not stinting with their praise for the hero.
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