dent
/dɛnt/
Misollar
- I saw a dent in my new car.
- They had a dent in the rear door.
- Stopgap measures won't make a dent in drug addiction.
- Don't sit on the car hood, you'll dent it.
ot noun
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A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
The crash produced a dent in the left side of the car.
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(by extension) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
That purchase put a bit of a dent in my wallet.
- A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
- A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
fe’l verb
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To develop a dent or dents.
Copper is soft and dents easily.
- To impact something, producing a dent.
Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.