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hent

hent verb: to take hold of, to grasp.

Verb

hent (third-person singular simple present hents, present participle henting, simple past and past participle hented)

  1. (obsolete) To take hold of, to grasp.
    • This cursed man hath in his hond y-hent / This poyson in a box, and sith he ran / In-to the nexte strete, un-to a man, / And borwed [of] him large botels three;1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Pardoner's Tale", The Canterbury Tales, republished 1897 [Clarendon Press], Walter W. Skeat (editor), Chaucer's Works: Volume 4, 2018 reprint, Outlook Verlag, page 533
    • And in the grekynge of the day Sir Gawayne hente his hors wondyrs for to seke.1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ix”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer...
  2. (obsolete) To take away, carry off, apprehend.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To clear; to go beyond.

hent meaning in Urdu

hent in Urdu

چھیننا, جھپٹ لینا, کھسوٹنا, لپکنا, نوچنا

Forms of hent

third-person singular presenthents
present participlehenting
past participlehented
pasthented
alternative formhente

Origin of hent

From Middle English henten (also hynten, hinten > English hint), from Old English hentan (“to pursue, chase after, seize, arrest, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *hantijan, from Proto-Germanic *hantijaną (“to seize”), related to Icelandic henta (“to suit, beseem”), Old English huntian (“to hunt”), Old High German hunda (“spoils, booty”).

Words formed from hent

Questions about hent

What does hent mean?
Hent means to take hold of, to grasp.
What is hent in Urdu?
Hent in Urdu is چھیننا, جھپٹ لینا, کھسوٹنا. See Hent meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is hent?
Hent is a verb.
What is the past tense of hent?
The past tense of hent is hented.

Words near hent in the dictionary

  1. Henspergers
  2. Henstock
  3. Henstridge
  4. Henstridges
  5. Hensunaha
  6. hent
  7. hentai
  8. hentaigana
  9. hentais
  10. hentak
  11. hentak kaki

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hent (page history and authors); hent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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