affix
verb (used with object)
to fasten, join, or attach (usually followed byto ).
had been affixing
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past perfect progressiveof affix.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Jimmy signed the contracts with as glad a hand as if he had been affixing his signature to some document of inheritance that would bring him a million.
From Mixed Faces by Roy Norton
