basemented

English

Etymology

From basement +‎ -ed.

Adjective

basemented (not comparable)

1. Having a basement.
   • 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:

     She is a widow, and she owns—mortgaged, of course—one of those old-fashioned, two-and-a-half-story, red-brick basemented houses⸺

   • 1942, The Second Great War, volume 4, The Amalgamated Press Ltd., page 1949, column 1:

     Moscow had many basemented buildings, and in the lowest storey safe and efficient shelters were established (see illus., p. 1850).

   • 1950, Noel Streatfeild, “Jane”, in Mothering Sunday, London: Collins […], published 1952, page 64:

     The Betlers lived in a Bayswater square. A five-storeyed and basemented house of incredible inconvenience.

2. Within a basement.
   • 1989, The London Archaeologist, volume 6, page 347:

     A large, apparently semi-basemented, room (Room 4) was added to the rear of Room 2 in Building B.

   • 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:

     Stacks of photos lined desks: forbidden images of women, basemented somewhere since the Revival.

   • 2019, Nicolás Giacobone, translated by Megan McDowell, The Crossed-Out Notebook, Scribner, →ISBN, page 78:

     I'm troubled and terrified by the ease with which I accepted my life in the basement, my reality as a basemented writer.