concertina
noun
a musical instrument resembling an accordion but having buttonlike keys, hexagonal bellows and ends, and a more limited range.
concertinaed
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past participleof concertina.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof concertina.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
concertinanouna musical instrument resembling an accordion but having buttonlike keys, hexagonal bellows and ends, and a more limited range.
Example Sentences
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Their third-floor apartment now sits at eye level, crushed under piles of concertinaed concrete slabs from the OPP 26 building in coastal Caraballeda, one of the districts hardest hit by the quakes.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
In the lift, once the doors have concertinaed closed, he says cheerily to another doctor: “This young lady has come to discuss a donation her family have made to the department.”
From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2017
The front of the crash happened where traffic was coming off the bridge towards Sittingbourne, and it had then "concertinaed" over the bridge behind it with incidents stretching back to Queenborough, he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2013
One house has concertinaed to the ground, as if hit by an earthquake.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2012
But she had died, nine years ago, and his father had contracted, as if a weight had settled on him and concertinaed him downward and inward.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
