dent

1. 1.

   make a depression into

   “The bicycle dented my car”

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Other forms of dent

plural

dents·

past tense

dented·

present participle

denting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dent

What does dent mean?

dent means "an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dent?

dent has 1 syllable: dent. In IPA it is /ˈdɛnt/.

What is another word for dent?

Close synonyms include incision, scratch, prick, slit, ding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dent a common word?

dent is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dent?

3 words rhyme with dent. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.