singe
verb (used with object)
to burn superficially or slightly; scorch.
were singeing
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past progressiveof singe.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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I was still more astonished, on approaching them, to find the nature of the food they were singeing and scraping.
From A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 by Augustus Earle
