personify
verb (used with object)
to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
was personifying
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past progressiveof personify.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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Instead, he was personifying forty and being nibbled by a gecko.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
