compound
adjective
composed of two or more parts, elements, or ingredients.
were compounding
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past progressiveof compound.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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Others worried the shocks were compounding and could no longer be assumed to pass on their own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Kate Phillips-Barrasso, vice president of Mercy Corps, said that relentless fighting and insufficient humanitarian aid were compounding the crisis.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
Laura Doel, head of the National Association of Head Teachers Cymru, said that while recruitment and retention had been an issue in Wales for a while, below-inflation pay awards were compounding it.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2022
How much more would the account in the previous exercise have been worth if the interest were compounding weekly?
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
And this must not be left out in reckoning the grains and scruples that were compounding themselves into his inner consciousness.
From A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop
