had been diffusing
- past perfect progressive of diffuse.
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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 Blunden, Edmund