—dent /dent/
noun [C]
► F0 a small hollow mark in the surface of something, caused by pressure or by being hit: » a dent in the door of a carSee picture: dent 
Thesaurus+: ↑Holes, hollows and dips
verb [T] ↑Verb Endings for dent
F0 to make a small hollow mark in the surface of something:
» I dropped a hammer on the floor, and it dented the floorboard.Thesaurus+: ↑Making holes in thingsF0 If you dent someone's confidence or pride, you make them feel less confident or proud:
» His confidence was badly dented when he didn't get into the football team.Thesaurus+: ↑Becoming and making less strong- ♯ Strange, suspicious and unnatural things and people
- ♯ Strength of will and determination
- ♯ Stressing and emphasizing
- ♯ Stretching the body
- ♯ String instruments
- ♯ Strong and weak
- ♯ Strong feelings
- ♯ Strong-willed
- ♯ Stubborn and determined people
- ♯ Students and pupils
- ♯ Stupid and silly
- ♯ Stupid and silly behaviour
- ♯ Stupid and silly people
- ♯ Subjects and disciplines
- ♯ Substances and structures in the body
- ♯ Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- ♯ Success and achievements
- ♯ Successful (things or people)
- ♯ Sugar and sugar substitutes
- ♯ Suggestions and proposals
- ♯ Suitable and acceptable
- ♯ Sultriness and humidity
- ♯ Summaries and summarising
- ♯ Supporters, members and defenders
- ♯ Surfaces of objects