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were worsting

  • past progressive
    of worst.
    worst
    adjective
    bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree.

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Ajax, noble son of Telamon, captain of your people, the cry of Ulysses rings in my ears, as though the Trojans had cut him off and were worsting him while he is single-handed.

From The Iliad by Homer