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noun • a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past adjective satellite • more than perfect | ||||||||
| 45% | 11 | Compound verb tense formed by combining the past tense of 'have' with the past participle of the main verb | ||||||
noun • a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past | ||||||||
| 38% | 4 | Past-tense verb that is the same as its present-tense form minus the fourth and fifth letters | ||||||
adjective satellite • lighted up by or as by fire or flame verb • to come to rest, settle • come down | ||||||||
The More Than Past Tense Crossword Clue
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PLUPERFECT which was last seen in the The Guardian Quick crossword.
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PLUPERFECT
Updated: October 13, 2023
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We think the answer is "" which means:
- noun
- • A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past adjective satellite
- • More than perfect adjective
- • Being a generalization of a perfect number. for a given natural number k, a number n is called k-perfect (or k-fold perfect) iff the sum of all positive divisors of n (the divisor function, σ(n)) is equal to kn.
- • More than perfect.
- • (grammar) pertaining to action completed before or at the same time as another.
- • Relating to a certain type of graph, complying with the theorem (pluperfect graph theorem) discovered by d. r. fulkerson in 1970.
- • Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
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