cave
noun
a hollow in the earth, especially one opening more or less horizontally into a hill, mountain, etc.
had been caving
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past perfect progressiveof cave.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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The empire, which for some time had been caving in at the center, was now everywhere crumbling at the edges.
From Maximilian in Mexico A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 by Sara Yorke Stevenson
