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The correct spelling is past.
How to pronounce past
/pɑːst/
verbIPA: /pɑːst/
Say it like: Pas-t
The correct spelling is past. To change place. For example: "a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past"
Usage Examples
“a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past”
“past glories”
“during the past year”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To change place.
- 2.To change in state or status
- 3.To move through time.
- 4.To be accepted.
- 5.In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
noun
- 1.The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
- 2.(grammar) The past tense.
adjective
- 1.Having already happened; in the past; finished.
- 2.(postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
- 3.Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
- 4.(grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
adverb
- 1.In a direction that passes.
- 2.Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.
preposition
- 1.Beyond in place, quantity or time.
- 2.No longer capable of.
- 3.Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.).
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