Pents


[pent] /pɛnt/

noun
1.
(def 4).
/pɛnt/
verb
1.
a past tense and past participle of pen2
adj.

“kept in, confined,” 1540s, variant of penned, past participle of pen (v.2). Pent-up (also pent up) is from 1580s.

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