pent
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9.1
- adjective
- /pɛnt/
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- I think there's been pent up demand, rather necessarily greed to actually own your own content.
- pent-up
I, I, I don't think there's this huge pent up demand for Bitcoin.
- I, I, I don't think there's this huge pent up demand for Bitcoin.
- But now that the world is opening up again, it's almost like people have this pent up emotion globally.
- Which it's possible that this is going to create sort of three to four months of pent up seller supply.
- And they had a lot of anger, pent up anger.
- But it's not just that, it's also that we are seeing a reduction in people's pent up savings.
- I mean, people were so pent up that going back to the normal, what happened?
- You know this, this pent up desire accelerates getting married.
- And there were times when I can, I was writing stuff and crying on the paper because all those pent up emotions were in there.
- But fear not, we are back and all that pent up excitement and anticipation will soon burst forth.
- I think there's been pent up demand, rather necessarily greed to actually own your own content.
- Although historically way more so we understood why there was all this pent up protesting and stuff, but to take it to the extreme they did then it's absurd.
- So there was all of this pent up demand to get cheaper freight from the countryside into cities and between cities that typically had to go by rail.
- It's, you know, can be great, But I think that once we get past this, people are there's so much pent up.
- But it was pent up, pent up, you know, and so, you know, I mean, I don't like drinking.
Examples
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I mean, people were so pent up that going back to the normal, what happened?
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That term or, or that reality of pent up demand, people that put off making a decision.
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But now that the world is opening up again, it's almost like people have this pent up emotion globally.
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All that pent up frustration is now spilling out into these streets.
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After months of isolation, she felt a pent up energy that needed to be released through dancing.
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The pent up tension in the room was palpable as everyone awaited the news.
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His pent up frustration led him to finally speak out about the issues at work.
Synonyms
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5.4
Having strong feelings that are kept inside and not shown
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4.1
A space surrounded on all sides and not open to the outside
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7.2
Kept inside a small place and cannot leave
Kept in one small space and unable to leave
Antonyms
How Confined
Surface Forms
Morphology
pent = pen (semi-transparent) = pen + t
Formed from the verb 'pen' with a past-participial '-t' (as in 'burnt'); understandable if the learner knows the verb 'pen' meaning 'confine', but many learners know 'pen' only as a writing instrument.
Etymology
Pent comes from the same idea as a pen, a small enclosure for animals, meaning 'shut in'. So when a crowd or feelings are pent, they are held inside and cannot get out.