enchain
verb (used with object)
to bind in or as in chain or chains; fetter; restrain.
were enchaining
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past progressiveof enchain.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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Le Loutre made no answer, for now events on the battlefield were enchaining every eye.
From The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
