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• v  make a depression into
  The bicycle dented my car
• s  of metal e.g.
  dented fenders

• Government investigators indicate that, as originally intended, RICO has significantly dented the operations of organized crime.
• Martha Stewart was dented and scuffed.
• Nothing has dented Rudd's popularity.

• indent
• dent
• bent
• crumpled

News & Articles

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• Soccer-No alarm bells despite poor showings by German youth
  By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN, June 13 (Reuters) - The image of Germany's much-praised youth system was dented this week when the country's Under-21 team completed a poor European showing for their junior squads, but soccer officials say there are no alarm bells ringing. Tournament favourites Germany went out of the European championships in Israel with two consecutive defeats before a futile 2-1 ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Copper futures tumble more than 1% on World Bank outlook
  Investing.com - Copper futures fell sharply to re-approach a five-week low on Thursday, as the industrial metal's appeal was dented after the world bank cut its global growth outlook. Copper
  June 13, 2013 - Nasdaq
• Action 9: Woman says landlord refused to cut down dead tree
  A massive tree in a Gastonia woman’s yard threatened the safety of her and her kids after it was deemed dead. It could have fallen at any moment, but the landlord said he wouldn’t pay for it to be removed. Danielle Terry showed Action 9 reporter Don Griffin part of the dead tree that fell and totaled her SUV. “All the glasses are broke. This is dented in; basically the tree fell directly on the ...
  June 13, 2013 - WSOC-TV Charlotte

Quotes

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• Bob Ainsworth in Gulf Daily News
  British public opinion has been dented by the level of losses that we have received, but we cannot run a campaign like this off the back of an opinion poll,Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth said.
• Brian Lenihan in Bloomberg
  Our confidence, our finances, our exports and our banks have been dented,Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said in the parliament in Dublin today.
• Paul Sereno in Reuters South Africa
  International investors will be scared to invest in Nigeria, and those willing to do so will request for the most stringent conditions, and Nigeria's international image will be highly dented as a country without the political will to cooperate in... Goodluck Jonathan http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodluck_Jonathan&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEUCTwnSlJ6ZTCid2NnS99dgJPu3w NEXT http://www.google.com/url?q=http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5584314-146/senate_to_investigate_allegations_against_members.csp&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFssWy_dtCI2ez_KB67eduwMRefxQ Jun 22, 2010 26460 35236 dentin You can actually see the daily increments of dentin," Sereno said.