basemented en · ADJ
Etymology
From basement + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) 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:The Betlers lived in a Bayswater square. A five-storeyed and basemented house of incredible inconvenience.
1950, Noel Streatfeild, “Jane”, in Mothering Sunday, London: Collins […], published 1952, page 64: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:
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(not-comparable) Within a basement.
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: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: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: