digest
verb (used with object)
to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
had been digesting
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past perfect progressiveof digest.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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"No, I'm sure," he repeated after a pause as though he had been digesting something "I wasn't thinking about you at all."
From The Research Magnificent by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
I want to know," continued David, who had been digesting the startling fact, "how the pig swings the bag on his back?
From The Stokesley Secret by Charlotte Mary Yonge
