with past participle
1past participle — /past ˈpatəsɪpəl/ (say pahst pahtuhsipuhl) noun a participle with past or perfect meaning; perfect participle, as fallen, sung, defeated. –past participial /past patəˈsɪpiəl/ (say pahst pahtu sipeeuhl), adjective …
2past participle — n. Gram. a participle used a) with auxiliaries to express, typically, completed action or a time or state gone by (Ex.: spoken in “he has spoken”) b) with auxiliaries to form the passive voice (Ex.: eaten in “the snails were all eaten in a… …
3past participle — past′ par′ticiple n. gram. a participle with past, perfect, or passive meaning, as fallen, sung, or defeated, used in English and other languages in forming the present perfect, past perfect, and passive and as an adjective • Etymology: 1790–1800 …
4past participle — n technical the form of a verb used with the verb to have in ↑perfect tenses (for example eaten in I have eaten ), or with the verb to be in the ↑passive (for example changed in it was changed ), or sometimes as an adjective (for example broken… …
5past participle — noun a participle that expresses completed action • Syn: ↑perfect participle • Hypernyms: ↑participle, ↑participial * * * noun, pl ⋯ ciples [count] grammar : the form of the verb that is used with “have” in perfect tenses and with “be” in passive …
6past participle — Gram. a participle with past, perfect, or passive meaning, as fallen, sung, defeated; perfect participle: used in English and other languages in forming the present perfect, pluperfect, and passive and as an adjective. [1790 1800] * * * …
7past — /past / (say pahst) verb 1. Rare past participle and occasional past tense of pass. –adjective 2. gone by in time. 3. belonging to, or having existed or occurred in time previous to this. 4. gone by just before the present time; just passed: the… …
8spoil past tense and past participle spoiled or spoilt, — BrE verb 1 RUIN STH (T) to have a bad effect on something so that it is no longer attractive, enjoyable, useful etc: The countryside has been spoiled by the new freeway. | Don t spoil your sister s birthday by crying at her party. | spoil… …
9past perfect — n [singular] technical the form of a verb that shows that the action described by the verb was completed before a particular time in the past, formed in English with had and a past participle >past perfect adj …
10past perfect — noun singular LINGUISTICS a verb tense formed with had and a past participle. It is used to express an action that was completed before a particular time in the past, for example had finished in the sentence She offered to help but I had already… …
