equip
verb (used with object)
to supply with whatever gear or apparatus is needed for use or for any undertaking; fit out, as a ship or army.
were equipping
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past progressiveof equip.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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The WHO said the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention were equipping the hardest-hit countries with technology to enable real-time reporting of cases and analysis of trends.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2014
They were equipping it with a sunshade and curious shields like wings.
From Sand Doom by Murray Leinster
It was known that Spanish ships of war were equipping at Callao purposely to attack them; and also that their former Commander, Edward Davis, with a good ship, was near this part of the coast.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney
And while they were equipping themselves, behold a knight came to the gate.
From The Mabinogion Vol. 1 by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards
Once Marsh gained an inkling that he and Big George were equipping themselves to go back to Kalvik—to Kalvik, Marsh's own stronghold, of all places!—he could and would thwart them without doubt.
From The Silver Horde by Rex Ellingwood Beach
