basining

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basin (third-person singular simple present basins, present participle basining or (rare) basinning, simple past and past participle basined or (rare) basinned)

1. To create a concavity or depression in.
   • Then axial subsidence basined the surface of the dome.1925 June, Reginald A. Daly, “The Geology of Ascension Island”, in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, volume 60, number 1
2. To serve as or become a basin.
   • To what degree this stress field formed in response to eastward movement of the African plate, to northward movement of the African plate relative to Europe, to basinning of the shelf between the eastern Canaries and Africa, or to other causes is as yet unknown.1976, Günther Kunkel, Monographiae Biologicae - Volume 30, page 77
3. To shelter or enclose in a basin.
   • A moan as of distant wind or thunder portended something at hand, the approach of which, basinned as we were among high broken ridges, patchy-scrubbed heights, and penned in by a maze of steep-sided gullies or gorges — we had no chance of observing, until it cam down in hurricane strength.1888, Henry Stuart Russell, The Genesis of Queensland

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