recharge
verb (used with object)
to charge again with electricity.
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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Meanwhile the crew had been recharging the battery and reloading the small arms.
From Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main by Will Crawford