relive
verb (used with object)
to experience again, as an emotion.
had been reliving
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past perfect progressiveof relive.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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Less than twelve hours earlier, the 42-year-old DuBrul had been reliving his youth, stage diving into a packed crowd in Brooklyn’s Warsaw Ballroom.
From Salon ● May 7, 2017
She woke slowly, realizing as she did that she had been reliving a dream become nightmare, that she was actually in a hospital; the smell was unmistakable.
From Thakur-na A Terran Empire story by Ann Wilson
While she had been reliving the past the words were entering her consciousness.
From A Son of the Hills by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
Ever since the boy had handed her that note she had been reliving those days.
From Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland
