pupate
verb (used without object)
to become a pupa.
was pupating
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past progressiveof pupate.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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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Gene Stratton-Porter
