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pent

/pent/US // pɛnt //UK // (pɛnt) //

凹槽,凹陷,凹陷的,凹痕

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Definitions

v.动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : a simple past tense and past participle of pen.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : shut in; confined.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Although, there’s a lot of pent up demand and people want to get back to business.

  • In doing so he exposed the failure of other airlines in the region to see the huge pent-up demand for cheap travel.

  • Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them.

  • Perhaps so much so that he aroused whatever cruelty and anger and lunacy that Hernandez may have had pent up.

  • Is it the Internet as an escape valve for decades of pent-up rebellion against political correctness?

  • All that pent-up uncertainty—a “bonus,” by definition, is discretionary—creates paranoia pretty much all year.

  • Perhaps the words let loose the emotion, though of different kinds, pent up behind their silence.

  • It was when one of the table-legs overturned the swill-pail that the long pent-up storm burst in a torrent of invective.

  • Instead, therefore, of receiving her former lover with dangerous pent-up fires, Lilian now feels pity for him.

  • At last his pent-up affections gave way, and he sought his chamber and wept there in secret.

  • Another moment and he was in her arms, silent, speechless, with long arrears of pent-up emotion.