past tense noun 1verb 1forms 3 noun1 •A grammatical form (often a verb form) that refers to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that happened (or had happened), or existed, at some time before now (the applicable reference time).This is a report on a study of the use of the past tense forms in the 53 Japanese samples compiled for the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI) project. — 2004 verb1 •To to end the life of something; to kill. formspast tensed · past tensing · past tenses
