indent

indent is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.
2. transitive verb. To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.
3. transitive verb. To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.
4. transitive verb. To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See Indentation, and Indention.
5. transitive verb. To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
6. intransitive verb. To be cut, notched, or dented.
7. intransitive verb. To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
8. intransitive verb. To contract; to bargain or covenant.
9. noun. A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
10. noun. A stamp; an impression.
11. noun. A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
12. noun. A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
13. noun. the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line

    Synonyms: indentation, indention, indenture

14. noun. an order for goods to be exported or imported
15. verb. bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant

    "an indentured servant"

    Synonyms: indenture

16. verb. notch the edge of or make jagged
17. verb. make a depression into

    "The bicycle dented my car"

    Synonyms: dent

18. verb. cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication

    "indent the documents"

19. verb. set in from the margin

    "Indent the paragraphs of a letter"

Synonyms

indentation, indention, indenture, dent

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in indent:

dentin, intend, tinned

Common word forms

indents, indented, indenter, indenting, indentment

Words from these letters

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