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dent

noun as in depression, scrape, chip

verb as in chip, scrape, depress

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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.

From Vox

I won’t say it’s cured me of my insomnia completely, but it’s made enough of a dent to keep it around.

From Fortune

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.

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On this page you'll find 77 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dent, such as: incision, indentation, cavity, crater, crenel, and cut.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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