dent

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1. dent - Noun

2. dent - Verb

3. Dent - Proper noun

Meaning

A stroke; a blow.

A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation.

To make a dent upon; to indent.

A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

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Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. George W. Bush

Sade has barely made a dent on American academic consciousness. It is his violence far more than his sex which is so hard for liberals to accept. For Sade, sex is violence. Violence is the authentic spirit of mother nature. Camille Paglia

I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft starting from way behind with a fraction of the resources and amateur labor. Ken Thompson

We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn. Orville Redenbacher

Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway. Peter Tork

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content. Vint Cerf

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