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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Pent uppart. adj.

    Shut up.

    Etymology: pent, from pen and up.

    Close pentup guilts
    Rive your concealing continents. William Shakespeare, K. Lear.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pent up in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pent up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of pent up in a Sentence

  1. Bert Hansen:

    There's some pent up frustration in the population right now that's ready to explode, that's why Trump's doing so well.

  2. Lawrence Yun:

    Either a strong pent-up demand will show in the upcoming months, or there is a lack of confidence that is keeping buyers from major expenditure.

  3. Andy Bruce:

    There is some pent-up demand to fill, our own view is that there will be single digit growth this year ... 5 percent.

  4. Sal Guatieri:

    The U.S. housing market will continue to expand this year, perhaps at a little slower rate than recently as some of the pent up demand has been exhausted, but overall it should be a fairly good year.

  5. Mike Spencer:

    What we've seen is there was even maybe more pent-up demand than we anticipated.

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