past participle
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past participle
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A verb form indicating past or completed action or time that is used as a verbal adjective in phrases such as baked beans and finished work and with auxiliaries to form the passive voice or perfect and pluperfect tenses in constructions such as She had baked the beans and The work was finished. Also called perfect participle.
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- Grammar and Usage - past participle: verb form usu. ending in “-ed” or “-en,” used as adjective or in forming passive voice or perfect tenses
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