dent
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 凹痕
- vt.
- 使凹下，削弱
- vi.
- 塌陷
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演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
From Middle English dent, dente, dint (“a blow; strike; dent”), from Old English dynt (“blow, strike, the mark or noise of a blow”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”). Akin to Old Norse dyntr (“dint”). Doublet of dint.
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
- (figurative) A minor effect made upon something.
- A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.