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(satellite adjective) of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board" |
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Synonyms: preceding, retiring |
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(adjective) earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" |
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Antonyms: future, present |
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(adjective) (grammar) a verb tense or other construction referring to events or states that existed at some previous time; "past participle" |
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(noun) a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past |
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Synonyms: past tense |
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Related Words: preterit, preterite, tense |
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(noun) the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" |
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Synonyms: past times, yesteryear, yore |
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Related Words: auld langsyne, bygone, history, langsyne, old, old times, the good old days, time, time immemorial, time out of mind, yesterday |
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Antonyms: future |
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(noun) a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past" |
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Related Words: amount of time, period, period of time, time period |
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(adverb) so as to pass a given point; "every hour a train goes past" |
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Synonyms: by |
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