Word Meanings - PENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Penned or shut up; confined; -- often with up. Here in the body pent. J. Montgomery. No pent-up Utica contracts your powers. J. M. Sewall.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PENT)

• Weary
• Fatigued
• tired
• exhausted
• worn
• jaded
• debilitated
• pent
• toil-worn
• faint

Related words: (words related to PENT)

• TIRE
  A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton.
• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• TIRO
  See TYRO
• TIRING-HOUSE
  A tiring-room. Shak.
• JADEITE
  See STONE
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• TIRONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.
• FAINTLY
  In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
• TIRAILLEUR
  Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.
• EXHAUSTIVE
  Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
• EXHAUSTURE
  Exhaustion. Wraxall.
• TIRE-WOMAN
  1. A lady's maid. Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making. Locke. 2. A dresser in a theater. Simmonds.
• TIREDNESS
  The state of being tired, or weary.
• FATIGUE
  1. Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength. 2. The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. Dryden. 3. The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains. Fatigue
• TIRRIT
  A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.
• EXHAUSTLESS
  Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.
• TIRRALIRRA
  A verbal imitation of a musical sound, as of the note of a lark or a horn. The lark, that tirra lyra chants. Shak. "Tirralira, " by the river, Sang Sir Lancelot. Tennyson.
• DEBILITATE
  To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance. Various ails debilitate the mind. Jenyns. The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort. Sir W. Scott.
• JADERY
  The tricks of a jade.
• JADDING
  See HOLING
• OVERFATIGUE
  Excessive fatigue.
• UNATTIRE
  To divest of attire; to undress.
• SATIRIST
  One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire. The mighty satirist, who . . . had spread through the Whig ranks. Macaulay.
• CULTIROSTRES
  A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc.
• EXTIRPATORY
  Extirpative.
• UNWEARY
  To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden.
• STIRPS
  Stock; race; family. Blackstone.
• UNEXHAUSTIBLE
  Inexhaustible.
• RECTIROSTRAL
  Having a straight beak.
• INEXHAUSTED
  Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden.
• MULTIRAMOSE
  Having many branches.
• ASTIR
  Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.
• SUMMERSTIR
  To summer-fallow.