recharge
verb (used with object)
to charge again with electricity.
were recharging
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past progressiveof recharge.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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Yet at week's end the lander batteries were recharging smartly, and Pathfinder mission manager Richard Cook seemed unconcerned about Sojourner's fast-expiring design life.
From Time Magazine Archive
In another place a company of reserves were recharging cases of artillery shells which had been sent back from the front in carload lots.
From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
James helped the men who were recharging the chemical engines.
From Ethel Morton at Chautauqua by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
