indented
Verb
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Verb
- Simple past tense and past participle of indent
indented
- 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.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV, Scene 3,
- Seeing Orlando, it [the snake] unlinked itself
- And with indented glides did slip away
- Into a bush;
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 8, lines 494-497,
- So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclos’d
- In Serpent, Inmate bad, and toward Eve
- Address’d his way, not with indented wave,
- Prone on the ground, as since, but on his reare,
- a heavily indented coastline
- 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV, Scene 3,
- (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.
- (cut in the edge into points) erose, serrated; see also Thesaurus:notched
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