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dentsnounpl. of dent a sunken area forming a separate spacethere was a big dent in the car's hood where something had hit it cavities, concavities, depressions, dints, holes, hollows, indentations, indentures, pits, recesses burrows, caverns, caves, ditches, excavations, furrows, grooves, gutters, trenches, troughsbasins, bowls, valleysalcoves, clefts, niches, nooks, openings, recesses, socketsalveoli, dimples, gouges, impressions, imprints, notches, pocketsboreholes, chuckholes, craters, postholes, potholes, sinkholes, wallows, water holes, wellsabysses, chasms, gulfs, vacuities, vacuums(or vacua), voids bulges, cambers, convexities, juts, projections, protrusions, protuberances hills, mounds, risesbumps, bunches, humps, lumps, pimples, swellings, swells, tumors the amount by which something is lesseneda little belt-tightening would at least make a small dent in our credit-card debt abatements, declines, decreases, decrements, depletions, depressions, diminishments, diminutions, drop-offs, drops, falloffs, falls, losses, reductions, shrinkages, step-downs deductions, subtractionsdownturns, slips, slumpscurtailments, cutbacks, cuts, retrenchments, shortenings boosts, enlargements, gains, increases, increments, raises, rises, step-ups, upticks accretions, accruals, accumulations, additions, supplementscontinuations, extensionsupswings, uptrends, upturns to make smaller in amount, volume, or extenthopefully this vacation won't dent our bank account too much abates, decreases, de-escalates, depletes, diminishes, downscales, downsizes, drops, dwindles, eases, knocks down, lessens, lowers, reduces compresses, condenses, constricts, contractsabbreviates, abridges, clips, crops, curtails, cuts, cuts back, cuts down, docks, nicks, pares, prunes, retrenches, shortens, slashes, trims, truncates, whittlesdeflates, shrinksminimizesmoderates, modifies, modulates, qualifies aggrandizes, amplifies, augments, boosts, enlarges, escalates, expands, increases, raises blows up, dilates, distends, inflates, swellselongates, extends, lengthens, prolongs, protractsadds (to), complements, supplementsenhances, heightens, intensifiesredoubles |