exempt
verb (used with object)
to free from an obligation or liability to which others are subject; release.
was exempting
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past progressiveof exempt.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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But Comcast was exempting the use of Xfinity, Comcast’s own online video Web site, saying that use would not count against that cap.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2012
The authorities believed that in his medical capacity he was exempting people from their military service, and not for the advantage of the Serbian cause so much as for that of his own pocket.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Henry Baerlein
