dent
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3.1
- noun
- /dɛnt/
:
mella
- Even the implementation of these increasingly stiff measures failed to put much of a dent in drinking.
- make a dent
- a dent in unemployment
- a significant dent
So I don't see this making a huge dent in terms of property values.
- So I don't see this making a huge dent in terms of property values.
- It's a real dent in in sort of your ego as a club.
- Do you really want to put a dent in that?
- But it also definitely means stock video generation is absolutely going to take a dent out of video licensing.
- I can't possibly make a dent in my, my profession.
- And your real passion now and mission is to put a big as big of a dent as you can into the veteran suicide epidemic.
Examples
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So I don't see this making a huge dent in terms of property values.
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We barely made a dent.
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So how do such "Charlie Brown Christmas trees" make a dent in global climate change?
Academic text (2001) -
I still had not made a significant dent in the book.
Fiction book (1990) -
And biotechnology is beginning to make a dent in agriculture and in a few industrial chemical processes.
Academic text (1997) -
That's a major dent in illicit revenue.
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We made the dent that the naysayers said we couldn't make.
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In my opinion, she didn't make much of a dent in the case against re-election.
Blog text (7) -
It wouldn't even put a dent in the tuition, and school start soon.
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The new policy has made a significant dent in reducing unemployment rates across the country.
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Etymology
A helpful way to remember the other sense of dent is to think of a 'bite' taken out of something; the word comes from dens ('tooth'), so making a dent in your savings or balance means you have reduced it.