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-ation
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of sta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
-ed
unknown · 78% connection
The termination of the past participle of regular, or weak, verbs; also, of analogous participial adjectives from nouns; as, pigmented…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
-en
unknown · 78% connection
The termination of the past participle of many strong verbs; as, in broken, gotten, trodden.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
-ish
unknown · 78% connection
A verb ending, originally appearing in certain verbs of French origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
Arose
unknown · 78% connection
The past or preterit tense of Arise.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
Ate
unknown · 78% connection
the preterit of Eat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
Augment
noun · 78% connection
A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
Auxiliary
sing. · 78% connection
A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
Bare
unknown · 78% connection
Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
By
adverb · 78% connection
Passing near; going past; past; beyond; as, the procession has gone by; a bird flew by.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
Bygone
noun · 78% connection
Something gone by or past; a past event.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
Conjugate
verb · 78% connection
To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
Deponent
adjective · 78% connection
Having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and Greek verbs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
Historic
adjective · 78% connection
belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past; "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
Historical
adjective · 78% connection
belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past; "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
Indemnity
noun · 78% connection
Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnest…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
Modern
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern da…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chiefly, preterit, past, tenses, certain.
