Word a Day
dent
What does dent mean?
dent (verb): make a depression into.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use dent in a sentence?
- The bicycle dented my car. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce dent?
/dɛnt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does dent come from?
From Middle English dent, dente, dint (“a blow; strike; dent”), from Old English dynt (“blow, strike, the mark or noise of a blow”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “dent” mean?
make a depression into
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begin to be; turn into
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to occur or take place
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to inspect; to examine
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