clobber
verb (used with object)
to batter severely; strike heavily.
was clobbering
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past progressiveof clobber.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He was forced to abandon his campaign in New Hampshire, where Howard Dean was clobbering him in the polls, and concentrate his assets on the uninviting cornfields of Iowa.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the time Mr. Birkway got to me, my heart was clobbering around so hard I thought it might leap straight out of my chest.
From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
