combat
verb (used with object)
to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously.
had been combatting
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past perfect progressiveof combat.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 futility of the precautions he had taken, the inanity of all reasoning, of all logic, plunged him into the scepticism he had been combatting for so many years.
From The Idol of Paris by Sarah Bernhardt
