Crossword clues for pent
pent
- Cooped up
- Fenced in
- ___ up (confined)
- North Star
- Confined, with ''up''
- Closely confined
- ___-up rage
- House opening?
- Confined, with 'up'
- Held in
- Restricted, with "up"
- Fancy house opening?
- Confined (with ''up'')
- With up, constrained
- Suppressed, with "up"
- Restrained, with "up"
- Repressed (with "up")
- Held in check, with "up"
- Front of a "house"
- Expensive house attachment?
- Bottled, with "up"
- "House" attachment
- ___-up energy
- ____-up emotions
- ___ up (held in)
- Shut in
- Cooped (up)
- Shut (up)
- Contained, with "up"
- Bottled (up), like suppressed emotions
- Confined, with "up"
- Repressed, with "up"
- Locked (up)
- Abbr. on a certain elevator button
- Caged (up)
- Constrained, with "up"
- ___-up (confined)
- Shut up
- Kept in
- House preceder
- Kind of house
- Type of house
- " . . . long in city ___": Keats
- Immured
- Under confinement
- Word with house
- ___ up (held back)
- Closely confined (with "up")
- Stored up
- Confined (with "up")
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pent \Pent\, p. p. or a. [From Pen, v. t.] Penned or shut up; confined; -- often with up.
Here in the body pent.
--J.
Montgomery.
No pent-up Utica contracts your powers.
--J. M.
Sewall.
Pen \Pen\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pennedor Pent (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Penning.] [OE. pennen, AS. pennan in on-pennan to
unfasten, prob. from the same source as pin, and orig.
meaning, to fasten with a peg.See Pin, n. & v.]
To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small
inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to
inclose. ``Away with her, and pen her up.''
--Shak.
Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"kept in, confined," 1540s, variant of penned, past participle of pen (v.2). Pent-up (also pent up) is from 1580s.
Wiktionary
confined in a pen, imprisoned. v
(en-past of: pen); (alternative form of penned nocap=1 English)
WordNet
adj. closely confined [syn: shut up(p)]
n. a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
an enclosure for confining livestock
a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play [syn: playpen]
a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes [syn: penitentiary]
female swan
See pen
Usage examples of "pent".
Voluptuous as boiling cloud and as full of pent energies, erotic, beguiling Trandilar.
The aircraft was able to take off again after an HBC car penter named NValterjohnson fashioned a substitute out of toboggan boards held together with babiche-glue distilled from moose hoofs.
The watching girl, frantic with pent up longings, unbuttoned her blouse and quickly unburdened her bosom from the tight bra restraining it.
The pipes under pent of the crag, Where the goatherds in piping recline, Have whimsical stops, burst and flag Uncorrected as outstretched swine: For the fingers are slack and unsure, And the wind issues querulous:- thorns And snakes!
He was not an easy man in whom to confide, but Stanley Wood was so full of pent emotion that he would have welcomed the insensate ears of a stone Buddah had there been no other ear to listen.
They had somehow escaped the Wards that kept them pent and were killing for the vile pleasure of it, leaving the carcasses behind, the spoor of their vengeful feast.
My amorous feelings, so long pent up within my breast, would soon find relief.
Like an unbraked millwheel caught in an inconceivable flood, Bloodstone was snared in a vortex of energy that raced out of control, pent up with no outlet, raging power that would tear it to atoms.
Hears breathings as of hidden life asleep, And muffled throbs as of pent passions wild, Far murmurs, speech of pity or derision.
But now she triumphed, and the love so long pent up burst forth in full joyous bubblings.
Comme le disait Klein a I'epoque, Dick propose que le decrochage systematique de I'ordre etabli -- par la desobtissance civique par exemple -- pent seul faire tehee au pouvoir.
Comme le disait Klein a I'epoque, Dick propose que le decrochage systematique de I'ordre etabli -- par la desobtissance civique par exemple -- pent seul faire tehee au pouvoir.
As one who long in populous City pent, Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Aire, Forth issuing on a Summers Morn, to breathe Among the pleasant Villages and Farmes Adjoynd, from each thing met conceaves delight, The smell of Grain, or tedded Grass, or Kine, Or Dairie, each rural sight, each rural sound.
He pent me in here with this devil flower whose seeds drifted down through the black cosmos from Yag the Accursed, and found fertile field only in the maggotwrithing corruption that seethes on the floors of hell.
He pent me in here with this devil flower whose seeds drifted down through the black cosmos from Yag the Accursed, and found fertile field only in the maggot-writhing corruption that seethes on the floors of hell.