past tense
noun
: a verb tense expressing action or state in or as if in the past:
a
: a verb tense expressive of elapsed time (such as wrote in "on arriving I wrote a letter")
b
: a verb tense expressing action or state in progress or continuance or habitually done or customarily occurring at a past time (such as was writing in "I was writing while he dictated" or loved in "their sons loved fishing")
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
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