had been scabbing

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of scab.
  scab

  noun

  the incrustation that forms over a sore or wound during healing.

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• blister
• crater
• defect
• discoloration
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