Noun: dent
Sample Sentences
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The crash produced a dent in the left side of the car.
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to make a dent
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"Case Of You" (#67, 1980), a single on the Scotti Brothers label, was Frank's first chart dent. [1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 392:]
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The transitoriness perhaps makes viral content the most representative form of culture in the twenty-first century: an era of vast quantities, deep specificity, and breakneck speed, where few individual artifacts, artworks, or conventions leave a dent in society or bend the curve of history. [2022, W. David Marx, chapter 10, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:]
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That purchase put a bit of a dent in my wallet.
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Andy Carroll's first goals since his £35m move to Liverpool put a dent in Manchester City's Champions League hopes as they were emphatically swept aside at Anfield. [2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:]
Nouns inflected like dent
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English dent, dente, dint (“a blow; strike; dent”), from Old English dynt (“blow, strike, the mark or noise of a blow”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”). Akin to Old Norse dyntr (“dint”). Doublet of dint. See: Middle English Nouns '
dent', Old English Nouns '
dynt', Old Norse Nouns '
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Verbs referencing "dent"
Icelandic Nouns
dyntur, Old Norse Nouns
dyttr.