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| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: PENT UP |
| English words defined with "PENT UP": Bottled, break, burst ♦ erupt ♦ Uppent. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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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. | ||
| 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reserved, sealed, self contained, shut, shut in, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconversable, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn).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 stãpânit (continent, phlegmatic, sober), înãbuşit (muffled, restrained, smoldering, smouldering, thumping). (various references) сдерживаемый. (various references) ugušen (suffocant), suzdržan (composing), napregnut (far fetched, intent, strained). (various references) reprimido (pent, repressed), encerrado (bounded, included, pent, shut in). (various references) undertryckt (pent-up, subdued), förträngd, återhållen. (various references) kapatılmış (closed, confined, covered, shut), hapsedilmiş (confined, imprisoned), bastırılmış (appeased, bottled, bottled up, depressed, restrained, subdued). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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