Need another word that means the same as “dent”? Find 41 synonyms and 30 related words for “dent” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Dent” are: incision, prick, scratch, slit, ding, gouge, nick, indentation, dint, dimple, dip, depression, hollow, crater, pit, trough, reduction, depletion, deduction, cut, hole, indent, make a dent in, make an indentation in, mark, diminish, reduce, lessen, shrink, weaken, erode, undermine, sap, shake, break, crush, cripple, destroy, damage, impair
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “dent” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| crater | A bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb. Ganymede the largest moon in the solar system has relatively few impact craters. |
| cut | A piece of meat cut from a carcass. The mayor proposed extensive cuts in the city budget. |
| deduction | An amount or percentage deducted. Tax deductions. |
| depletion | The state of being depleted. The depletion of the ozone layer. |
| depression | A state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention. Depression of the plunger delivers two units of insulin. |
| dimple | A chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four corners are still attached. There are approximately 336 dimples on a golf ball. |
| ding | An impression in a surface (as made by a blow. |
| dint | A dent or hollow in a surface. I perceive you feel the dint of pity. |
| dip | A thick sauce in which pieces of food are dipped before eating. There was a dip in the road. |
| gouge | A chisel with a concave blade, used in carpentry, sculpture, and surgery. |
| hole | An opening into or through something. He played 18 holes. |
| hollow | A depression hollowed out of solid matter. He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians. |
| incision | A mark or decoration cut into a surface. The method is associated with less blood loss during incision. |
| indentation | The action of indenting or the state of being indented. Paragraphs are marked off by indentation. |
| nick | A small cut or notch. He was being fingerprinted in the nick. |
| pit | A person s armpit. He had a flat tyre when he came into the pits. |
| reduction | The act of reducing complexity. There had been a reduction in the number of casualties. |
| scratch | A technique used especially in rap music of stopping a record by hand and moving it back and forwards to give a rhythmic scratching effect. He gave his scalp a good scratch. |
| slit | Obscene terms for female genitals. Arrow slits. |
| trough | A long narrow shallow receptacle. Seasonal peaks and troughs in the demand for goods and services. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “dent” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| break | Break a piece from a whole. I was acting as referee and telling them to break. |
| crush | Crush or bruise. Crush an aluminum can. |
| damage | Inflict damage upon. These fine china cups damage easily. |
| destroy | Destroy completely damage irreparably. The room had been destroyed by fire. |
| diminish | Make or become less. The trial has aged and diminished him. |
| dint | Mark (a surface) with dents or hollows. The metal was dull and dinted. |
| erode | (of a disease) gradually destroy (bodily tissue. Rain eroded the terraces. |
| impair | Make worse or less effective. A noisy job could permanently impair their hearing. |
| indent | Bind by or as if by indentures as of an apprentice or servant. We were indenting for paper clips one by one in those days. |
| lessen | Make smaller. The warmth of the afternoon lessened. |
| make a dent in | Calculate as being. |
| make an indentation in | Achieve a point or goal. |
| mark | Make or leave a mark on. The examiner may have hundreds of scripts to mark. |
| reduce | Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements. Reduce one s standard of living. |
| sap | Excavate the earth beneath. Her illness had sapped her of energy and life. |
| shake | Shake a body part to communicate a greeting feeling or cognitive state. Shake one s head. |
| shrink | Draw back, as with fear or pain. Hot water will shrink the sweater. |
| undermine | Lessen the effectiveness, power, or ability of, especially gradually or insidiously. This could undermine years of hard work. |
| weaken | Lessen the strength of. Fault lines had weakened and shattered the rocks. |
| abyss | A catastrophic situation seen as likely to occur. The abyss between the two nations. |
| aperture | A space through which light passes in an optical or photographic instrument, especially the variable opening by which light enters a camera. The bell ropes passed through apertures in the ceiling. |
| balloon | Ride in a hot air balloon. I ate out of boredom and I just ballooned up. |
| chip | Form by chipping. Granite chips. |
| cut | The way or style in which something especially a garment or someone s hair is cut. Cut to a dentist s surgery. |
| deep | A deep part of the sea. Deep in enemy territory. |
| deflate | Become deflated or flaccid as by losing air. His response deflated me. |
| dint | Mark (a surface) with dents or hollows. The metal was dull and dinted. |
| engrave | Cut or carve a text or design on (a hard object. Engraved the trophy cup with the winner s name. |
| furrow | Cut a furrow into a columns. Fields of ridge and furrow. |
| gouge | Obtain money by swindling or extortion. The channel had been gouged out by the ebbing water. |
| groove | A long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process such as erosion or by a tool as e g a groove in a phonograph record. Her vocals drift delicately across a soaring soul groove. |
| hole | Hit the ball into a hole. George holed a six iron shot from the fairway. |
| jail | Put someone in jail. The driver was jailed for two years. |
| nick | Make a nick or nicks in. A small nick on his wrist. |
| opening | The act of opening something. The play s opening scene. |
| pit | Remove the pits from. You ll get the chance to pit your wits against the world champions. |
| prison | A prisonlike situation a place of seeming confinement. Both men were sent to prison. |
| puncture | Make a puncture in something. Puncture an air balloon. |
| rift | A major fault separating blocks of the earth s surface a rift valley. The rift between the two branches of the legal profession. |
| rupture | An instance of breaking or bursting suddenly and completely. One of the boys was ruptured and needed to be fitted with a truss. |
| scar | Form or be marked with a scar. Such lung scarring is associated with cigarette smoking. |
| shrink | Decrease in size, range, or extent. Can you shrink this image. |
| sinkhole | A depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof. |
| slit | Form one s eyes into slits squint. Slitted eyes. |
| therein | (formal) in or into that thing or place. They can read therein what our plans are. |
| thrash | Give a thrashing to beat hard. The wind screeched and the mast thrashed the deck. |
| tire | Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress. The journey had tired her. |
| trace | Discover traces of. Trace quantities of PCBs. |
| wide | A ball that is judged to be too wide of the stumps for the batsman to play for which an extra is awarded to the batting side. The government s desire for wider share ownership. |
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