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n. A depression in a surface made by pressure or a blow: a dent in the side of a car.

n. Informal A significant, usually diminishing effect or impression: The loss put a dent in the team's confidence.

n. Informal Meaningful progress; headway: at least made a dent in the work.

v. To make a dent in.

verb-intransitive. To become dented: a fender that dents easily.

n. See tooth.

n. A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.

n. A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action

v. To impact something, producing a dent.

v. To develop a dent or dents.

n. A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

n. A stroke; a blow.

n. A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation.

v. To make a dent upon; to indent.

n. A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

n. A stroke; a blow.

n. Force; weight; dint.

n. a hollow mark made by a blow or by pressure; a small hollow or depression on the surface of a solid or a plastic body; an indented impression; a dint.

Marked by a dent or impression; dented; only in the phrase dent corn, Indian corn which has a depression in each kernel.

To make a dent of small hollow in; mark with dents or impressions.

To aim a denting or effective blow.

n. A notch; an indentation.

n. A tooth of a comb, metallic brush, or card.

n. A salient tooth or knob in the works of a lock.

n. A tooth of a gear-wheel.

n. A cane or wire of the reed frame in a weavers' loom.

To notch; indent.

n. An abbreviation of dental;

n. of dentist;

n. of dentistry.

n. an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

n. an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)

n. a depression scratched or carved into a surface

v. make a depression into

"Congressional Democrats tonight are blasting the president's budget as well, saying the president's new budget is filled with what they call dent and deception."

dented    dentes    denting    dents   

result    effect    event    issue    consequence    outcome    upshot    turn    deform    twist   

dented    denting   

stroke    blow    indentation    indent    notch    tooth   

Bendt    Brent    Gent    Ghent    Kent    Lent    Tashkent    Trent    accent    ascent   

indentation    dence    bruise    bump    scratch    corrosion    gash    flaw    crack    blemish