approximate
adjective
near or approaching a certain state, condition, goal, or standard.
had been approximating
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past perfect progressiveof approximate.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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Yet the fact also remained that to the conservative, correct, and, as she believed, secure condition to which she had been approximating, all her relations were rudely shaken and upset.
From A Sappho of Green Springs by Bret Harte
