past perfect tense

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past perfect tense - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  past perfect tense
      n 1: a perfective tense used to express action completed in the
           past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect"
           [syn: past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect,
           pluperfect tense]