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pent

 (pĕnt)
v.
A past tense and a past participle of pen2.
adj.
Penned or shut up; closely confined.
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pent

(pɛnt)
vb
a past tense and past participle of pen2
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pent

(pɛnt)

adj.
shut in; confined: pent cattle; pent emotions.
[past participle of late Middle English pend, variant of pen2 (v.); compare spend]

Pent.

Pentecost.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.pent - closely confined
confined - not free to move about
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During supper D'Artagnan observed that Planchet kept rubbing his forehead, as if to facilitate the issue of some idea closely pent within his brain.
Why were they keeping him pent up in this narrow crate?
Straight at the man he launched his one hundred and forty pounds of fury, surcharged with the pent passion of two days and nights.
His endless muttering monologue vitiated every effort I made to think out a line of action, and drove me at times, thus pent up and intensified, almost to the verge of craziness.
Neither do I reckon it an ill seat, only where the air is unwholesome; but likewise where the air is unequal; as you shall see many fine seats set upon a knap of ground, environed with higher hills round about it; whereby the heat of the sun is pent in, and the wind gathereth as in troughs; so as you shall have, and that suddenly, as great diversity of heat and cold as if you dwelt in several places.
And so when love came to her it liberated all the pent passions of a thousand generations, transforming La into a pulsing, throbbing volcano of desire, and with desire thwarted this great force of love and gentleness and sacrifice was transmuted by its own fires into one of hatred and revenge.
As I felt her body against mine, all the pent love of these three long months shattered the bonds of timidity and conviction, and I swept her up into my arms and covered her face and lips with kisses.
And in the silence that followed, a blue-bottle fly buzzed rowdily against an adjacent window-pane, with occasional loud bumps against the glass tokening that he too had his tragedy, a prisoner pent by baffling transparency from the bright world that blazed so immediately beyond.
Surely Jove has granted you the prayer you made him, when you lifted up your hands and besought him that the Achaeans might all of them be pent up at their ships, and rue it bitterly in that you were no longer with them."
It took but a few moments to release the gases pent up in the poor beast, and the two women heard the rush of wind and saw the roan visibly diminish in girth.
But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster--tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks.
The strain upon pent emotion reached its climax when the boy said: