diffuse
verb (used with object)
to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
had been diffusing
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past perfect progressiveof diffuse.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 Bonadventure lay still, even the cocoa-like mud which her propeller had been diffusing in a few moments thinning away.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden
