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Synonyms

half-done

British  

adjective

  1. (of a job, task, project, etc) only partially completed

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In Poeni you can see where some of that ends up, in all the half-done new homes.

From BBC Mar. 22, 2025

Now I often cross my living room, see a half-done puzzle, and instead park myself on my couch, zone out and mindlessly scroll and scroll and scroll on my phone.

From Salon Jan. 9, 2022

The book is more than half-done, according to Dissanayake, and friends hope to dig into her computer files to see if there is a way to complete it.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 31, 2021

The Great War, as World War I was known, was only half-done, but already its industrial carnage had no parallel in European history.

From New York Times Jun. 30, 2016

Brigit took out a pair of knitting needles and a half-done quilt square and started stitching.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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