pent
pronunciation
How to pronounce pent in British English:
UK [pent]
How to pronounce pent in American English:
US [pent]
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- Adjective:
- closely confined
Word Origin
- pent
- pent: see pen
- pent (adj.)
- "kept in, confined," 1540s, variant of penned, past participle of pen (v.2). Pent-up (also pent up) is from 1580s.
Example
- 1. We need to unleash the pent up capital and creativity .
- 2. That included our pent house .
- 3. The bird is pent up in a cage .
- 4. Is this person bicurious and they 're completely pent up and angry and frustrated ?
- 5. At london I am pent up in frowzy lodgings , where there is no room to swing a cat .