forearm
noun
the part of the arm between the elbow and the wrist.
was forearming
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past progressiveof forearm.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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One of the smug assumptions of the cold war era was that the U.S. was forearming itself with a stockpile of strategically scarce commodities to see it through a wartime siege.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had a presentiment that in this way God was forearming him for some extraordinary trial; and the loss of his wife seemed to him most likely to be that trial.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George L. Prentiss
