redistribute
verb (used with object)
to distribute again or anew.
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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In a moment she looked up from the baby, whom she had been redistributing, to his advantage.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan