elevate
verb (used with object)
to move or raise to a higher place or position; lift up.
had been elevating
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past perfect progressiveof elevate.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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At last he came, looking somewhat ill, for we were crossing the Gulf of California, and Boreas and Neptune had been elevating Robert, or in plainer English, "Kicking up a bobbery," all night long.
From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Paschal Beverly Randolph
For I had been elevating her too highly in my concepts of her, removing her too far from the plane of the human, and too far from me.
From The Sea Wolf by Jack London
Then came a spiteful little crack of the pistol the starter had been elevating.
From Fred Fenton Marathon Runner The Great Race at Riverport School by Allen Chapman
