bandage
noun
a strip of cloth or other material used to bind up a wound, sore, sprain, etc.
had been bandaging
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past perfect progressiveof bandage.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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Elizabeth rose from her knees beside a man whose crushed foot she had been bandaging.
From Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories by Florence Finch Kelly
