regenerate
verb (used with object)
to effect a complete moral reform in.
was regenerating
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past progressiveof regenerate.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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I swear it was regenerating itself on my plate, never getting smaller no matter how long I munched.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024
"I think the area was regenerating anyway," Forman says, looking across at the stadium.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2012
The idea that the maze was regenerating itself, honeycombing its way under the earth again and providing a spacious new home for monsters...that didn’t make him happy.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
It is true, they generally believed that whenever this grace was imparted to an extent to restore to the mind the power of choosing good, it was regenerating grace.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur
He reveled in the belief that his sorely tried body was regenerating its old vigors.
From Rezanov by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
