Indented

/ɪnˈdɛntɪd/ · adjective

Meaning

Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; dented on the surface; jagged; notched; stamped in..

Definitions by Sense

1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; dented on the surface; jagged; notched; stamped in.
2. Having an irregular, uneven; sinuous; undulating.
3. (heraldry) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated.
4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.
5. (zoology) Notched along the margin with a different colour, like the feathers of some birds.
6. simple past and past participle of indent

Example Sentences

He saw the horrible form among the big trees, in the network of creepers in the fantastic outlines of leaves, of the great indented leaves that seemed to be so many enormous hands with big broad palms, with stiff fingers outspread to lay hold of him; […]

The old brown photograph with the photographer’s indented seal in the corner showed the long ranks of the cavalry […]

a heavily indented coastline

Seeing Orlando, it [the snake] unlinked itself / And with indented glides did slip away / Into a bush; […]

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, […]

an indented border or ordinary

an indented servant

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• more indented
• most indented

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