pent

[ pent ]

/ pɛnt /

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verb

a simple past tense and past participle of pen².

adjective

shut in; confined.

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Origin of pent

First recorded in 1535–45; late Middle English pente, pent, past participle of obsolete pend, variant of pennen “to enclose, confine”; cf. pen²

Words nearby pent

pension off, pension plan, pensive, penstemon, penstock, pent, penta-, pentachloronitrobenzene, pentachlorophenol, pentacle, pentad

Other definitions for pent (2 of 3)

pent²

[ pent ]

/ pɛnt /

noun

penthouse (def. 4).

Origin of pent

By shortening

Other definitions for pent (3 of 3)

Pent.

abbreviation

Pentecost.

How to use pent in a sentence

Although, there’s a lot of pent up demand and people want to get back to business.
‘We’re getting more used to the uncertainty’: BBC Global News chief on ad-funded news|Lucinda Southern|September 10, 2020|Digiday
In doing so he exposed the failure of other airlines in the region to see the huge pent-up demand for cheap travel.
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501|Clive Irving|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them.
Alex Haley’s 1965 Playboy Interview with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.|Alex Haley|January 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Perhaps so much so that he aroused whatever cruelty and anger and lunacy that Hernandez may have had pent up.
Etan Patz: Painfully Obvious Evidence|Michael Daly|May 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Is it the Internet as an escape valve for decades of pent-up rebellion against political correctness?
Why Are Men So Angry?|Kay Hymowitz|February 28, 2011|DAILY BEAST
All that pent-up uncertainty—a “bonus,” by definition, is discretionary—creates paranoia pretty much all year.
Europe's Got Balls|Randall Lane|July 8, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Perhaps the words let loose the emotion, though of different kinds, pent up behind their silence.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
It was when one of the table-legs overturned the swill-pail that the long pent-up storm burst in a torrent of invective.
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War|Various
Instead, therefore, of receiving her former lover with dangerous pent-up fires, Lilian now feels pity for him.
The Autobiography of a Play|Bronson Howard
At last his pent-up affections gave way, and he sought his chamber and wept there in secret.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume II|John Lord
Another moment and he was in her arms, silent, speechless, with long arrears of pent-up emotion.
Eric, or Little by Little|Frederic W. Farrar

British Dictionary definitions for pent

pent

/ (pɛnt) /

verb

a past tense and past participle of pen 2

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