was pupating
- past progressive of pupate.
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Likewise, when Dali the Surrealist was pupating, there was hardly a trope in his pictures of 1927-28 that didn't come out of Andre Masson, Ernst, Miro or Yves Tanguy.
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Before morning he had burrowed into the earth from sight, and was pupating, so there was great risk in disturbing him.
From Moths of the Limberlost by Stratton-Porter, Gene