indent

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To begin a line of text further from the margin than the other lines.

   Remember to indent the first line of each paragraph.

Partly from Middle English indenten (“to dent in”), equivalent to in- + dent (see dent); partly from Middle English indenten, endenten, from Old French endenter (“to provide with teeth”), from en- (“in-, en-”) + dent (“tooth”), from Latin dēns.

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