Turkey didn't want Britain to leave, but its exit may well dent Ankara's EU ambitions enough for it to give up all together.
Green is so famously thin-skinned that becoming plain "Mr" again might well dent his ego, but it amounts to little more than sticking a plaster on the festering wound of the honours system.
While this may not be Sachsgate – Chavgate, perhaps – I Want a Baby may well have dented Hill's credibility, sending Twitter into a tizzy and forums into a frenzy.
As well as denting established reputations, Hamilton attracted other young like-minded poets and critics - David Harsent, Hugo Williams, Colin Falck and Michael Fried among them - who together loosely formed a school dedicated to a terse, imagist minimalism: a verse with "the courage of its constrictions".
Some 5,000 locks left on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence were removed by city authorities because they were deemed to be ugly as well as denting the metal structure of the bridge.
And Mr Russell predicted that a proposed agreement between the Scottish government and Cosla may lead to work for all those qualifying next summer as well as denting existing unemployment levels.
Freeman imagined what Murdoch might have been thinking when he signed up: "Well, I've already dented my reputation – let's totally destroy it and show the whole world that I don't even know how to punctuate".
The outcome has been to shatter the image of the omniscient doctor, as well as to dent the plausibility of experts in all fields.
"Changes need to be made swiftly to protect shareholders, with recent equity raisings, as well as insider dealings having dented investor confidence," said Simon Finch, who helps manage a Japan equity fund at Ashburton, an asset management firm based in the Channel Island of Jersey, off the coast of France.
The hail also damaged aircraft at a local airport and dented cars, as well as inflicting injuries to a handful of swimmers at beaches near Maroochydore.
