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Indented vs Undented - What's the difference?

indented | undented |

As adjectives the difference between indented and undented

is that indented is cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface while undented is not dented.

As a verb indented

is past tense of indent.

indented

English

Verb

(head)
  • (indent)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
  • Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
    • (Milton)
  • * 1599 , , IV. iii. 113:
    • it unlinked itself / And with indented glides did slip away / Into a bush:
  • (heraldry) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated.
    • an indented border or ordinary
  • Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.
    • an indented servant
  • (zoology) Notched along the margin with a different color, like the feathers of some birds.

    • Anagrams

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    undented

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not dented.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 4, author=Michiko Kakutani, title=A Haitian Tragedy: Brothers Yearn in Vain, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=She has written a fierce, haunting book about exile and loss and family love, and how that love can survive distance and separation, loss and abandonment and somehow endure, undented and robust. }}