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1. (adj.) past perfect
pertaining to or being a verb tense or form indicating that the action or state expressed by the verb was completed prior to a point of reference in the past or that it extended up to or had results continuing up to that point, and consisting in English of had followed by a past participle, as had seen in
I had never seen anything like it.
2. (n.) past perfect
the past perfect tense.
3. past perfect
a form in this tense.
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1. (noun) past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluperfect tense
a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
"`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect"
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