PENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pent mean? 

• PENT (adjective)
  The adjective PENT has 1 sense:

1. closely confined

  Familiarity information: PENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Closely confined

Synonyms:

pent; shut up

Similar:

confined (not free to move about)

 Context examples 

I was aware of a pent, stifled feeling.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But this time his feelings were all pent in his heart: I was not worthy to hear them uttered.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Straight at the man he launched his one hundred and forty pounds of fury, surcharged with the pent passion of two days and nights.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He was finding speech, and all the beauty and wonder that had been pent for years behind his inarticulate lips was now pouring forth in a wild and virile flood.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A more civilized or more effeminate generation, however, had refused to be pent up in such a cellar, and the hall with its neighboring chambers had been added for their accommodation.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here my self-support gave way all at once; and with a movement of my hands, intended to show her my ragged state, and call it to witness that I had suffered something, I broke into a passion of crying, which I suppose had been pent up within me all the week.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What of her anger and pent feelings, her lungs were irritated into the dry, hacking cough, and with blood-suffused face and one hand clenched against her chest, she waited for the paroxysm to pass.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Mrs. Weston was convinced that such conversation must be the greatest relief to her companion, pent up within her own mind as every thing had so long been, and was very much pleased with all that she had said on the subject.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Why were they keeping him pent up in this narrow crate?

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was as though he were bursting with pent energy which must find an outlet somehow.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)