indented

POS

Adjective

HYPHEN

in=dent=ed

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CIDE DICTIONARY

indented, a.

Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface. [1913 Webster]
Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating. Milton. Shak. [1913 Webster]
Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary. [1913 Webster]
Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant. [1913 Webster]
Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds. [1913 Webster]

Indented line (Fort.), a line with alternate long and short faces, with salient and receding angles, each face giving a flanking fire along the front of the next.

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THESAURUS

indented

alveolar, alveolate, battlemented, chopped, crenate, crenated, crenellated, crenulate, dentate, dentated, dented, depressed, dimpled, embrasured, engraved, erose, faveolate, gashed, honeycombed, incised, jagged, jaggy, lacerate, lacerated, nicked, notched, pitted, pocked, pockmarked, saw-toothed, sawlike, scalloped, scored, serrate, serrated, serrulated, toothed