mound
noun
a natural elevation of earth; a hillock or knoll.
were mounding
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past progressiveof mound.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Yu leapt out of the car to take photos of a pair of bulldozers that looked tiny against the vast swath of empty land where they were mounding up dirt.
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