fathom
noun
a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. fath
was fathoming
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past progressiveof fathom.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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The Countess had plunged in a kind of stupor; to me, watching her, it seemed that she was fathoming the depths of the abyss into which she had fallen.
From Gobseck by Ellen Marriage
He knew that that judicial mind was fathoming and understanding his past relations with Maria upon the evidence he had himself furnished.
From Old Kaskaskia by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
I was fathoming the depths of her soul-lighted, lustrous grey eyes; and, contiguity is sometimes apt in such circumstances, I am told, to hurry one into the rashness of desperation, bringing matters to a crisis.
From She and I, Volume 1 by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
