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PENT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Closely confined
Synonyms:
pent; shut up
Classified under:
Similar:
confined (not free to move about)
Context examples:
Young, supple and active, with all the pent energies from years of pure and healthy living, it was not long before he could manage his horse and his weapon well enough to earn an approving nod from critical men-at-arms, or to hold his own against Terlake and Ford, his fellow-servitors.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her only experiences in such matters were of the books, where the facts of ordinary day were translated by fancy into a fairy realm of unreality; and she little knew that this rough sailor was creeping into her heart and storing there pent forces that would some day burst forth and surge through her in waves of fire.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I am sure you cannot long be content to pass your leisure in solitude, and to devote your working hours to a monotonous labour wholly void of stimulus: any more than I can be content, he added, with emphasis, to live here buried in morass, pent in with mountains—my nature, that God gave me, contravened; my faculties, heaven-bestowed, paralysed—made useless.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When Thornton passed a caressing hand along his back, a snapping and crackling followed the hand, each hair discharging its pent magnetism at the contact.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I was pardonably curious in my survey, for it appeared my fate to be pent up with them on this miniature floating world for I knew not how many weeks or months.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Pent in, a hundred feet from earth, with a furnace raging under them and a ravening multitude all round who thirsted for their blood, it seemed indeed as though no men had ever come through such peril with their lives.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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