regenerate
verb (used with object)
to effect a complete moral reform in.
were regenerating
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past progressiveof regenerate.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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Sure enough, “within six weeks they were regenerating their brains,” Sessions says.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 2, 2022
Within eight months, he could distinguish between hot and cold, a sure sign that the nerves were regenerating.
From Time Magazine Archive
The article on Novalis, in the "Foreign Review" of 1829, No. 7, presents with a master hand the peculiarities of the new metaphysics that were regenerating the German mind.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
