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- adjective Having a
berm . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
berm .
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Examples
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Few have probably been irked by or even noticed the circuitous bermed, granite walls leading up to the Washington Monument that ingeniously impede a head-on approach by vehicles.
The Skyscraper as a Pillar of Confidence Julie V. Iovine 2011
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They can convert designs to be bermed in or underground if you like.
Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » Underground Home - Switzerland 2009
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Compressed earth blocks and straw bale would be a big part of construction as well as earth and bermed housing.
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The benches look nice and there are trees staked on bermed and mulched planting beds.
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Having learned what not to do to properly weather-proof a house (omit insulation, use enormous panes of single-sheet glass, do without drywall, etc.), he constructed a bermed, earth-sheltered house nearby.
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The roof and sides of the prototype house will be earth-bermed.
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A little after 4pm, the excavator stopped by to check on progress as he'll have to do all the back-fill with crushed rock around the bermed-up portions of the house once the shell wall has been poured and fully waterproofed.
DesignerBlog Will 2007
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Forms set for pouring the back wall of the house and parts of the side walls—the walls that will have earth bermed up to them.
DesignerBlog Will 2007
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But by noon, the insulation company came to waterproof and insulate the entire underground and bermed parts of the cement shell.
DesignerBlog Will 2007
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It's not the first time the method has been tried in the Iraq war; several smaller communities have been bermed, and even neighborhoods in Baghdad have been blockaded to force residents through single checkpoints.
Berming Baghdad 2007
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