interbreed
verb (used with object)
to crossbreed (a plant or animal).
was interbreeding
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past progressiveof interbreed.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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“So back in the day when the Homo sapiens was interbreeding with Neanderthals, you would have discouraged that?”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2019
The argument went that we remained one species throughout that evolutionary process, because there was interbreeding among the different populations.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2012
