stint
/stɪnt/ verb C1- To be sparing or mean. · The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
- To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
- 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.
- To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
He/she/it stints · Past stinted · Past participle stinted · -ing form stinting
Verb forms
- Base form
- stint
- He/she/it
- stints
- Past
- stinted
- Past participle
- stinted
- -ing form
- stinting
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A FLEA thus questioned an Ox: “What ails you, that being so huge and strong, you submit to the wrongs you receive from men and slave for them day by day, while I, being so small a creature, mercilessly feed on their flesh and drink their blood without stint?” The Ox replied: “I do not wish to be ungrateful, for I am loved and well cared for by men, and they often pat my head and shoulders.” “Woe’s me!” said the flea; “this very patting which you like, whenever it happens to me, brings with it my inevitable destruction.”
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