had been dissolving

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of dissolve.
  dissolve

  verb (used with object)

  to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution.

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