condense
verb (used with object)
to make more dense or compact; reduce the volume or extent of; concentrate.
were condensing
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past progressiveof condense.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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Health officials in Wales said GPs were condensing a lot of their vaccine clinics from Wednesday onwards and then into the weekends.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2021
A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure.
From The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Whilst we were condensing on Lake Lapage, one moonlight night we saw a flight of ducks fly over us to the northward.
From Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie
