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PENT UP

Synonyms within Context: PENT UP

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Memory

Adjective: remembering, remembered; Verb: mindful, reminiscential; retained in the memory; Verb: pent up in one's memory; fresh; green, green in remembrance; unforgotten, present to the mind; within one's memory; Noun: indelible; uppermost in one's thoughts; memorable; (important).

Restraint

Adjective: restrained, constrained; imprisoned;Verb: pent up; jammed in, wedged in; under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches; in swaddling clothes; on parole; in custody, doing time; (prisoner); cohibitive; coactive; (compulsory).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: PENT UP

English words defined with "PENT UP": Bottled, break, bursteruptUppent. (references)

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Commercial Usage: PENT UP

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: PENT UP

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

So while companies may have foregone major investments in energy efficient technologies during the crisis years, this could represent pent up demand as the recovery deepens and broadens. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PENT UP

Language Translations for "PENT UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i ndryrë, i mbyllur (barred, cagey, cagy, close, closed, confined, enclosed, finished, glued, laid up, landlocked, locked, made, reserved, sealed, self contained, shut, shut in, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconversable, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏يكبت, ‏مكظوم (repressed), ‏مكبوت (curbed, penned, repressed, restrained, subdued, suppressed), ‏سجن كبير في شمال لندن. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

насъбран, накипял, затворен (close, closed, confined, imprisoned, jailed, jugged, landlocked, locked, mediterranean, narrow, pent, recluse, reticent, shut in), запрян (pent). (various references)

   

Czech

  

potlaèovaný, tìsnì uzavřený, stísnìný (confined, glum, pent). (various references)

   

French

  

refoulé, réprimé (pent). (various references)

   

German

  

innerlich angespannt, geladen (charged, live, loaded, reload), aufgewühlt (agitated, boisterous, broken, churning, in a turmoil, tempestuous, troubled, turbulent), aufgestaut, angespannt (keen, overstretched, strained, taut, tense, tensely, tight). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έγκλειστοσ (inmate, pent), συγκρατημένοσ (reserved, restrained). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ס'ור ומסו'ר (pent, tightly closed). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

visszafojtott (restrained, unshed), felgyülemlett (accumulated, pent-up). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

terkurung. (various references)

   

Italian

  

rinchiuso (pent), represso (repressed). (various references)

   

Manx

  

doont stiagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

entpay upay

   

Romanian

  

stãpânit (continent, phlegmatic, sober), înãbuşit (muffled, restrained, smoldering, smouldering, thumping). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сдерживаемый. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ugušen (suffocant), suzdržan (composing), napregnut (far fetched, intent, strained). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reprimido (pent, repressed), encerrado (bounded, included, pent, shut in). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

undertryckt (pent-up, subdued), förträngd, återhållen. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kapatılmış (closed, confined, covered, shut), hapsedilmiş (confined, imprisoned), bastırılmış (appeased, bottled, bottled up, depressed, restrained, subdued). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: PENT UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-n-p-p-t-u"

-2 letters: pent, punt, tune.

-3 letters: net, nut, pen, pep, pet, pun, pup, put, ten, tun, tup.

-4 letters: en, et, ne, nu, pe, un, up, ut.

 Words containing the letters "e-n-p-p-t-u"
 

+2 letters: tuppence, tuppenny, untapped, untipped.

 

+3 letters: opportune, tuppences, unstepped, unstopped, unstopper.

 

+4 letters: prenuptial, septupling, supplanted, supplanter, supplement, suppletion, unapparent, unhappiest, unprompted, unstepping, unstoppers, unstrapped, uppitiness, uppityness, upstepping.

 

+5 letters: appurtenant, inopportune, opportunely, pluripotent, presumption, supplanters, supplements, suppletions, suppressant, unstoppable, unstoppered, unsupported.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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