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🔊 A loud noise 🔊 To make noise 🔁 To repeat often
to din

to din

7.2
Make someone remember something by repeating it many times
  • verb
  • /dɪn/
translation icon : inculcar
  • The teacher tried to din the multiplication tables into her students' heads by repeating them every day.

Examples

  • Well it used to make the boys laugh when I was trying to din some Latin into them when I was a school teacher.

    Evil Under the Sun (1982)

  • "What you don't yet understand—for all that I've been trying to din it into your head since the first course you took with me—is that legitimacy is a consensual construction. 'Science' is a belief structure.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • His great laugh, one of the greatest laughs in the world, dinned in my ear.

  • His mother would din the importance of hard work into him whenever he slacked off on his studies.

  • The coach din the playbook details into the team, hoping they would remember each strategy for the big game.

Synonyms

to inculcate
vsto din
  • Formal
9 8.1

Teach someone a belief or habit by repeating it often

focuses on making someone remember facts by repeating them many times

Antonyms

to forget
∞ 1.0

Not remember something you should remember

Compounds

Iz Al-Din Al-Qassam Battalions
  • NSFW
9.9

An armed group linked to Hamas that attacks Israel

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
  • NSFW
9.9

An armed group linked to Hamas that carries out attacks against Israeli targets

How Repetitive

to hammer in
  • Informal
1 4.6
to din
7.2
to repeat
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

din infinitive
dinned past
dinned past participle
dinning present participle
dins third person singular

Etymology

Din in the sense of teaching by repetition comes from the idea of making a loud noise in someone's ears until they remember; people were 'dinned' with repeated words. A helpful way to remember this is to imagine a teacher repeating a lesson until it is 'dinned' into the students' minds.