revert
verb (used without object)
to return to a former habit, practice, belief, condition, etc..
had been reverting
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past perfect progressiveof revert.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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The captain had been reverting to the topic of his friend Benwick's engagement, and Anne had been saying that women did not forget as readily as men.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
