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basemented

basemented adjective: having a basement.

Adjective

basemented (not comparable)

  1. Having a basement.
    • She is a widow, and she owns—mortgaged, of course—one of those old-fashioned, two-and-a-half-story, red-brick basemented houses⸺1902, Clara Morris, “Preparing the Pit”, in A Pasteboard Crown: A Story of the New York Stage, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 267
    • Moscow had many basemented buildings, and in the lowest storey safe and efficient shelters were established (see illus., p. 1850).1942, The Second Great War, volume 4, The Amalgamated Press Ltd., page 1949, column 1
  2. Within a basement.
    • A large, apparently semi-basemented, room (Room 4) was added to the rear of Room 2 in Building B.1989, The London Archaeologist, volume 6, page 347
    • Stacks of photos lined desks: forbidden images of women, basemented somewhere since the Revival.2015, Sam J. Miller, “To Die Dancing”, in Steve Berman, editor, Wilde Stories, 2016: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, Lethe Press, published 2016, →ISBN, page 140

Examples of basemented in a sentence

  • A five-storeyed and basemented house of incredible inconvenience.1950, Noel Streatfeild, “Jane”, in Mothering Sunday, London: Collins […], published 1952, page 64:
  • I'm troubled and terrified by the ease with which I accepted my life in the basement, my reality as a basemented writer.2019, Nicolás Giacobone, translated by Megan McDowell, The Crossed-Out Notebook, Scribner, →ISBN, page 78:

Origin of basemented

From basement + -ed.

Questions about basemented

What does basemented mean?
Basemented means having a basement.
How do you use basemented in a sentence?
A five-storeyed and basemented house of incredible inconvenience.
What part of speech is basemented?
Basemented is an adjective.

Words near basemented in the dictionary

  1. basement membrane
  2. basement membranes
  3. basement-dweller
  4. basement-dwellers
  5. basement-dwelling
  6. basemented
  7. basementful
  8. basementfuls
  9. basementier
  10. basementiest
  11. basementless

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