I.halfpulled down, half-overthrown, half-demolished, half-destroyed, half-ruined (not anteAug.; “freq. in the historians, esp. in Liv.): murus,” Liv. 31, 26; 32, 17: “tecta,” id. 10, 4; Luc. 1, 24: “vallum,” Tac. A. 1, 61: “castella,” Liv. 28, 44; Tac. A. 4, 25: “urbs,” Liv. 5, 49; 31, 24: “plus negotii fuit cum semirutā Karthagine quam cum integrā,” Flor. 2, 15, 13: “patria,” Liv. 26, 32 et saep.: “telae confuso stamine,” half-torn, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 155. —Neutr. plur. as subst.: sēmĭrŭta , ōrum, n.: “partim per semiruta partim scalis integros muros transcendere,” the halfdemolished parts of the wall, Liv. 36, 24, 6 (dub.; “Weissenb. semirutos): semiruta moenium,” App. Flor. 2, p. 350, 30.
sēmĭ-rŭtus , a, um, adj. ruo,