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forming

/ˈfɔɹmɪŋ/ noun B1
  1. The act by which something is formed; formation.

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Two other men descended after Danglars forming the rearguard, and pushing Danglars whenever he happened to stop, they came by a gentle declivity to the intersection of two corridors.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1072 · C1
And now I beg that you will lay before us everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the matter.”
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 37 · B2
We must pierce through the corridor by forming a side opening about the middle, as it were the top part of a cross.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 149 · C1
Nothing in the two small chambers forming the apartments remained as it had been in the time of the elder Dantès; the very paper was different, while the articles of antiquated furniture with which the rooms had been filled in Edmond’s time had all disappeared; the four walls alone remained as he had left them.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 274 · C1

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