Word Finder - past

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To change place.

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To change in state or status

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To move through time.

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To be accepted.

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In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.

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To do or be better.

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To take heed.

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• take heed
• take notice

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The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.

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a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past

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(grammar) The past tense.

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Having already happened; in the past; finished.

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past glories

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(postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.

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Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.

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during the past year

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(grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.

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past tense

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In a direction that passes.

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I watched him walk past

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• by

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Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.

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Ignore them, we'll play past them.

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Beyond in place, quantity or time.

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count past twenty

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No longer capable of.

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I'm past caring what he thinks of me.

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Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.).

They had to move forward, and leave the past behind them.

It was past midnight.

He brushed past her.

Don't look at the past so negatively.

Lisa brushed past Giddon without looking at him.

If I should attempt to tell how I have desired to spend my life in years past, it would probably surprise those of my readers who are somewhat acquainted with its actual history; it would certainly astonish those who know nothing about it.

But you must remember I'm old, and my dashing days are past and gone.

He was right, to a degree It isn't the past that I'm pitching you, Alex.

She stood, frozen with fear as his dark figure moved past her.

All your court has been looking for you for the past two hours.

It was past one o'clock.

She had to stop thinking about the past that way.

It was time to put the past where it belonged.

That time which we really improve, or which is improvable, is neither past, present, nor future.

The birth of her child was imminent, if not past due.

He had seemed amused by her modesty in the past, and yet it had obviously troubled him.

It's the lessons we learned from the past.

The troops again began to move, and two battalions of the Novgorod and one of the Apsheron regiment went forward past the Emperor.

Avoiding his eyes as she walked past him, she tried not to limp.

If you weren't appreciated, you wouldn't have made it past the first trip.

She led him first down the hallway where the gym was, pointing out the locker rooms and weapons room before taking him to the second floor to Jonny's wing and past her doorless room.

Doubtless the work of the past few months does seem like a triumphal march to him; but then people seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

All night long troops were moving past the inn.

I didn't get past the perfume counter.

Drive past Tatarinova, a lot of digging is going on there.

What is it? he asked, but his comrade was already galloping off past Vasili the Beatified in the direction from which the screams came.

Maybe that was what made him such a good salesman in the past.

You keep telling me it's in the past - until you can dig it back up and throw it in my face again.

They walked past Darian, with the Black God hesitating before continuing on.

And as I look to the past and the present, I see two phenomena that especially drive my optimism.

Where?... he shouted to three infantrymen without muskets who, holding up the skirts of their overcoats, were slipping past him into the Bazaar passage.

With the photos in her hands, the fertilized eggs were a thing of the past.

He stopped thinking about the past and his gaze seemed to come to the present.

If Katie hadn't disclosed that incident to her before she met Alex, would he have revealed that facet of his past?

In every mirror, dust obliterated her past.

On the other hand, she hadn't asked Len to look into Yancey's past.

His voice was soft, anger suddenly a thing of the past.

Allen was the past and Yancey the future.

Why go through all that pain again, when she had almost succeeded in putting him in the past - almost, but not quite.

My past is such an enigma; I don't know any of the details.

The article listed past instances of use, admitting on rare occasions the psychic proved helpful to police investigations.

Whoever the guy in the Blazer was, he gave Edith the look-see when he drove past Bird Song.

I'm ready to forgive you, but we're never going to put this in the past if you keep up this farce.

He wriggled through the crowd to her, looking past her at the chasm and the woman sobbing beside it.

She felt the sudden urge to run again, as far as she could from her past, Talia's death, the bleak future of the White God and his Guardians.

But she let Jonny's words slide, as she did everything else he'd said to her the past few days.

He'd taken a few different vamps to his bed the past few days.

The Darian she'd left behind two weeks ago hadn't resolved his issues with his past.

With a complexion like hers, he was often mistaken as her brother, a similarity they'd used in the past to keep people from finding out she was Damian's mate.

A yellow ball of hissing fur flew past her.