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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of section.

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  • adjective consisting of or divided into sections

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Examples

  • Take off clothing and place it in sectioned laundry hamper according to lights and darks.

    Gaffs Mint | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • They are ill and should be 'sectioned' - lifted from the streets and confined in the care of the mental health system, behind bars if necessary.

    Waging the war against liberalism... from Donaghcloney Johnny Guitar 2007

  • They are ill and should be 'sectioned' - lifted from the streets and confined in the care of the mental health system, behind bars if necessary.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Johnny Guitar 2007

  • He should have been deemed (or 'sectioned' as they now euphemistically call it).

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Midsomer Murders, saying he would have been "sectioned" by shareholders if he had tried to.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • I should remind you that I was being admitted voluntarily, there was never any suggestion that I needed to be 'sectioned' but you would have thought that I had stolen the Crown Jewels and then run amok slaying the Royal Family to judge by the manner of the nurse admitting me.

    Mental Nurse 2009

  • There's been many reports recently in the UK of people being 'sectioned'/jailed for life supposedly for killing non physical entities/pig yobs because they have 'mental health' problems.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • "sectioned" under the Mental Health Act increased by a fifth between 1996 and 2006.

    Signs of the Times 2008

  • "sectioned" patients were 15 times more likely to be in an NHS facility than a private facility in 1996-7 but only five times more likely by 2006.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2008

  • Seven molars were also virtually sectioned through the mesial cusps and two-dimensional enamel thickness and dentine horn height measurements were recorded.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

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