The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word INDENTED
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What does INDENTED mean?
INDENTED verb- To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
- To be cut, notched, or dented.
- To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
- To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
- To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
- To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
- To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
- To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
- To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
- Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
- Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
- Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated.
- Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.
- Notched along the margin with a different color, like the feathers of some birds.