passed, past
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passed, past
Passed is the past tense and past participle of the verb pass: We passed a police car / The time has passed. The related adjective, preposition, and adverb are all past: for the past three hours / We drove past a police car / She hurried past. The form past is also a noun: living in the past.
| party, parts of speech, partisan | |
| passer-by, passive, past master |
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