Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact. · 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. · A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
To impact something, producing a dent. · To develop a dent or dents.
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.
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