dent 的 3 个定义
- a hollow or depression in a surface, as from a blow.
- a noticeable effect, especially of reduction: to leave a dent in one's savings; a dent in one's pride.
- to make a dent in or on; indent: The impact dented the car's fender.
- to have the effect of reducing or slightly injuring: The caustic remark dented his ego.
- to show dents; become indented: Tin dents more easily than steel.
- to sink in, making a dent: Nails dent into metal.
dent 近义词
depression, scrape, chip
chip, scrape, depress
更多dent例句
- Multiply this at the scale of Facebook’s billions of users and across all subject matters, and it’s easy to see why simply not “recommending” some groups barely makes a dent.
- Many of those top-of-the-line homes on wheels can put a dent in your savings as large as a condo.
- Yet, you want your brand to gain traction and make a dent, in spite of the dominant brands.
- The vaccine has to be effective, and there needs to be enough of it to put a dent in transmission.
- I won’t say it’s cured me of my insomnia completely, but it’s made enough of a dent to keep it around.
- My desk still has the dent from where I hit my head against it when I heard that one.
- That is bound to put a dent in public confidence in the police.
- Even with mixed reviews, the film did little to dent Clooney's reputation.
- Plane travel is extremely dehydrating, and continuously purchasing water at airport prices can put a dent in your wallet.
- Emergency benefits have just expired for some 1.3 million jobless Americans, putting a huge dent in our economy.
- I guess he can't make a dent on the Chinese disposition, or he'd have had Wong dead before this.
- Please take the dent out of my side, Poly, for I am more crippled than was the Soldier.
- The snow-covered Dent du Midi had a splendor like the face of the full moon when it is rising.
- Then he would show the dent in his cheek, and pass his helmet round for all to see, as a conjurer does.
- Mr. John Dent was born about the middle of the eighteenth century.