were detoxing

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of detox.
  detox

  verb (used without object)

  to rid the body or a bodily organ of a poison, toxin, or drug (often followed byfrom ).

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