It's starlets' and socialites' worst nightmare; having spent hours picking out the right frock and 'jushing' hair to perfection, the heavens open and you're left standing on the red carpet like a drowned rat.

Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.

Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him inventorially, would dizzy the arithmetic of memory […]

More importantly, it is highly context dependent: (a) certain text types (such as advertising copy) seem to license bare mediopassives more than others (see Section 6.4.1), (b) contextually implied contrast may enable an inherent property reading of a bare mediopassive (see Sections 6.4.2.1 and 6.4.2.2), or the verb itself might foster bare mediopassive use (this seems to be the case with denominal verbs like zip, button, bolt, or clamp, see Goldberg and Ackerman 2001: 806).