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Characterized by continuous progress or advancement. Grammar. Belonging to or denoting an aspect or tense of a verb that expresses an action in…
Grammar. Of a verb form or aspect: denoting continuous action, = progressive, adj. 2e. Cf. durative, adj., expanded, adj. 2b.
Continuing; not completed; spec. in Grammar applied to a form which marks action as going on. Also as n.
Expressing continuance: see B. b.