hinder
verb (used with object)
had been hindering
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past perfect progressiveof hinder.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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“I needed to get out of the place where I was, and this had been hindering me,” Ms. Jones said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021
It seemed that by delaying them we had been hindering the day's work of the entire Home Forces.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 12, 1917 by Various
