Preterit

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1. Adjective

Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.

2. Adjective

Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.

3. Noun

The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.

4. Noun

a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense
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