interchange
verb (used with object)
to put each in the place of the other.
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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As he had been speaking they had been interchanging notes of appreciative and sympathetic comment.
From King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth by William T. Stead