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dentnoun a sunken area forming a separate spacethere was a big dent in the car's hood where something had hit it cavity, concavity, depression, dint, hole, hollow, indentation, indenture, pit, recess burrow, cave, cavern, ditch, excavation, furrow, groove, gutter, trench, troughbasin, bowl, valleyalcove, cleft, niche, nook, opening, socketalveolus, dimple, gouge, impression, imprint, notch, pocketborehole, chuckhole, crater, posthole, pothole, sinkhole, wallow, water hole, wellabyss, chasm, gulf, vacuity, vacuum, void bulge, camber, convexity, jut, projection, protrusion, protuberance hill, mound, risebump, bunch, hump, lump, pimple, swell, swelling, tumor the amount by which something is lesseneda little belt-tightening would at least make a small dent in our credit-card debt abatement, decline, decrease, decrement, depletion, depression, diminishment, diminution, drop, drop-off, fall, falloff, loss, reduction, shrinkage, step-down deduction, subtractiondownturn, slip, slumpcurtailment, cut, cutback, retrenchment, shortening boost, enlargement, gain, increase, increment, raise, rise, step-up, uptick accretion, accrual, accumulation, addition, supplementcontinuation, extensionupswing, uptrend, upturn to make smaller in amount, volume, or extenthopefully this vacation won't dent our bank account too much abate, de-escalate, decrease, deplete, diminish, downscale, downsize, drop, dwindle, ease, knock down, lessen, lower, reduce compress, condense, constrict, contractabbreviate, abridge, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, dock, nick, pare, prune, retrench, shorten, slash, trim, truncate, whittledeflate, shrinkminimizemoderate, modify, modulate, qualify aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, enlarge, escalate, expand, increase, raise blow up, dilate, distend, inflate, swellelongate, extend, lengthen, prolong, protractadd (to), complement, supplementenhance, heighten, intensifyredouble in the 14th century |