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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of concertina.

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Examples

  • And all this, mind, a century before the Montgolfier brothers ever hoisted themselves aloft, so expect your time frames and tenses to be concertinaed as your credulity is stretched to its breaking point.

    This steampunk take on The Three Musketeers doesn't buckle my swash 2011

  • The writings comprised cascade upon cascade of dramas small and large concertinaed into a few hundred words; entertaining to read, but it felt like she had harvested a week's worth of incident and excitement and shoe-horned them into a day or less.

    The confusing world of Katharine Birbalsingh 2011

  • "But you used to laugh at him," bugled Dan, fists balled and forehead concertinaed in rectangular outrage.

    World of Lather: a month in soap 2012

  • She looked up at Nell, frowning so that her forehead concertinaed.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • She looked up at Nell, frowning so that her forehead concertinaed.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • There were paper balls and bells that concertinaed flat for storage, but when opened were in quarters of red and blue and yellow; the paper was barely more substantial than tissue and the decorations were easily torn.

    Irish Blogs 2009

  • She looked up at Nell, frowning so that her forehead concertinaed.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • She looked up at Nell, frowning so that her forehead concertinaed.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • She looked up at Nell, frowning so that her forehead concertinaed.

    Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008

  • Most of the things that concern them concern us all, but with them it is concertinaed into this relatively short period of time.

    Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro: Questions 2005

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