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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

semicollapsed en · ADJ

Etymology

From semi- + collapsed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Partially collapsed.
    • The next town east, Colgan, is littered with semicollapsed houses and rusting automobiles; an older man I spotted working on some kind of machine in his yard told me there were six residents left. 2015 August 6, Richard Rubin, “In North Dakota, Boom, Bust and Oil”, in New York Times: