had been skiving

• 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 skive.
  skive

  verb (used with object)

  to split or cut, as leather, into layers or slices.

Related Words

• cut back
• cut down
• decrease
• lower
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