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Pluperfect

More than perfect; past perfect; -- said of the tense which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the time of another past action or event.

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Perfect 84% connected

Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and k…

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Perfect 84% connected

Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and k…

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Perfect 76% connected

Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and k…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Perfective 76% connected

Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; -- usually followed by of.

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Accessory adjective · 78% connection

furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to…

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Adjunct adjective · 78% connection

furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to…

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Adjuvant adjective · 78% connection

furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to…

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Ancillary adjective · 78% connection

furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to…

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Appurtenant adjective · 78% connection

furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to…

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Aspect noun · 78% connection

the beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of a verb

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Auxiliary adjective · 78% connection

furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to…

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Bare adjective · 78% connection

apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage o…

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Future perfect noun · 78% connection

a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future; "‘I will have finished’ is an example of the future p…

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Future perfect tense noun · 78% connection

a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future; "‘I will have finished’ is an example of the future p…

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Future tense noun · 78% connection

a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future

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Imperative form noun · 78% connection

a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior

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Imperative mood noun · 78% connection

a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior

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Imperative verb noun · 78% connection

a verb in the imperative mood.

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Jussive mood noun · 78% connection

a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior

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Modal auxiliary noun · 78% connection

an auxiliary verb (such as ‘can’ or ‘will’) that is used to express modality

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Modal auxiliary verb noun · 78% connection

an auxiliary verb (such as ‘can’ or ‘will’) that is used to express modality

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Modal verb noun · 78% connection

an auxiliary verb (such as ‘can’ or ‘will’) that is used to express modality

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Advance adjective · 78% connection

Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army;…

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Aorist noun · 78% connection

A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indetermi…

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Arose unknown · 78% connection

The past or preterit tense of Arise.

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Been unknown · 78% connection

The past participle of Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee.

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Bygone noun · 78% connection

Something gone by or past; a past event.

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Com- unknown · 78% connection

A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m…

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Could imp. · 78% connection

Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.

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Cycle noun · 78% connection

An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and…

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Dis- unknown · 78% connection

A prefix from the Latin, whence F. des, or sometimes de-, dis-. The Latin dis-appears as di-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif…

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Epoch noun · 78% connection

A fixed point of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event; a point of time marked by an event…

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Foreadvise verb · 78% connection

To advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event.

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Heretofore adverb · 78% connection

Up to this time; hitherto; before; in time past.

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