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dent

/dent/US // dɛnt //UK // (dɛnt) //

凹陷,凹痕,凹槽,凹陷的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to show dents; become indented: Tin dents more easily than steel.
    • : to sink in, making a dent: Nails dent into metal.

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Examples

  • 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.