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means A dent is a hollow or depression pushed into a surface by a blow or pressure, without breaking it.
from From Middle English dent, a variant of dint, which comes from Old English dynt, meaning a blow or stroke. The sense shifted from the blow itself to the hollow the blow leaves behind. It is unrelated to French dent ('tooth'), despite the resemblance.
- origin
- from dint, meaning a blow struck
- physics
- metal yields but never fully forgives
- idiom use
- barely denotes progress, as in make a dent
- insurance term
- cosmetic, yet somehow never cheap to fix