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past participle
past participlen. A verb form indicating past or completed action or time that is used as a verbal adjective in phrases such as finished work and baked beans and with auxiliaries to form the passive voice or perfect and pluperfect tenses in constructions such as The work was finished and She had baked the beans. Also called perfect participle. See Usage Notes at participle, very.past participle n (Grammar) grammar a participial form of verbs used to modify a noun that is logically the object of a verb, also used in certain compound tenses and passive forms of the verb in English and other languages past′ par′ticiple
n. 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. [1790–1800] past participleA verb form that expresses a completed action, such as “tasted.”Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | past participle - a participle that expresses completed actionperfect participleparticipial, participle - a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses |
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Related to past participle: past perfect tense, present participleSynonyms for past participlenoun a participle that expresses completed actionSynonymsRelated Words |