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Meaning dent meaning

What does dent mean?
Definitions in simple English

dent Noun

— A dent is a depression in a surface such as from a blow.

dent

— verb make a depression into The bicycle dented my car — noun an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening) it made a dent in my bank account — noun an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) — noun (= scratch) a depression scratched or carved into a surface

Synonyms dent synonyms

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dent English » English

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Topics dent topics

What do people use dent to talk about?
Physical actions Break, wear out

Damage
States Quality Shape Round

Concave

Conjugation dent conjugation

How do you conjugate dent?

dent · verb

Examples dent examples

How do I use dent in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom's car is easily recognizable since there is a big dent in the front bumper.
The dent is huge.
Stopgap measures won't make a dent in drug addiction.

Movie subtitles

Why, you'd need an army with a battering ram to even dent it.
Run along and dent your fenders.
Don't try to follow me tonight or I'll put a dent in that ugly head of yours.
No one else has ever made a dent, not even his wife.
Couldn't even put a dent in the walls.
Answer me or I'll dent your head.
I've been in three bars and I put a dent in all three of them.
Fatso can't make a dent in him.
YOU BLACKED OUT THE WHOLE I NCI DENT.
You must have made quite a dent.
Professor Dent.
Receipt from Dent Laboratories.
I'd like to see Professor Dent.
Is Professor Dent there?
No, just a dent in my armor.
I'm sure these could put an awful dent in the professor's salary.
I didn't notice the dent in the fender.
Yet Dent told me they were worthless chunks of iron ore.
But what if I scratch the paint or dent a fender?
Looks like a bullet dent.
John Dent, sir.
Where are you from, Mr. Dent?
Come on, Dent. Get in tempo.
Hold up that chin, Dent.
That's better, Dent.
Come on, Dent!
Say, Dent, how'd you like to bunk with me?
Just between us, Dent, who ever let you in the Marines?
Speak up. I suggest, sir, if you stop trying to scare the pants off of Dent, perhaps he might do better.
Johnny Dent?
Eloise hasn't got enough of anything to make a dent in your paycheck.
No, it wasn't. And there's a dent.
Hi, pals. I've been in three barsand I put a dent in all three of them.

News and current affairs

But the long-term prognosis - made especially dire by health-care reform's inability to make much of a dent in rising medical costs - is sufficiently bleak that there is increasing bipartisan momentum to do something.
Since the start of this decade, neither recession nor hurricanes nor sky-high oil prices have seemed to dent their appetites.
Making matters worse, despite considerable gains in the last quarter of 2013, employment growth is far too weak to make a significant dent in joblessness.
To be sure, such measures will make only a dent in inequality, albeit an important and visible one.
Wouldn't phasing them out make a big dent in world poverty?
Restrictions on the transshipment of cocaine from South America to the US have made only a dent in street prices, which spiked in 2008 but have stabilized in 2009 at levels well below their historical highs in the 1990's.
This burden includes both public debt (owed by the government) and external dent (owed by the country as a whole to foreigners).
But it barely made a dent in their national debts, which can mean only one thing: massive squandering.
It would take years of new-car sales to make a dent in that number.
Or South Africa, where economic progress has constantly been too slow, whether in boom years for gold and other resources or busts, to make any real dent in poverty levels.
German, the EU's most widely spoken native language, hardly makes a dent.
Yet, despite the tremendous social pain, this approach will make no dent in their large and rising debt overhang.
At the same time, US job growth is still too mediocre to make a dent in the overall unemployment rate and on labor income.
LONDON - Two hundred years have passed since the battle of Waterloo, where Napoleon's calamitous defeat made such a huge dent in his country's self-image that General Charles de Gaulle, in his history of the French army, simply omitted it.

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