past
/pæst/ preposition A1- Beyond in place or quantity. · the room past mine· count past twenty
- Any number of minutes after the last hour. · What's the time? — It's now quarter past twelve midday (or 12:15 pm). — O.K., we'll stop at half (past) twelve.
- No longer capable of. · I'm past caring what he thinks of me.
- Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.).
- Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed. · Ignore them, we'll play past them.· Please don't drive past the fruit stand, I want to stop there.
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Hence it is that when she appears they look to her as knowing all things, while she no longer gives them advice, but in solitude laments their past folly.
A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings.
There he remained until past eleven at night.
When we got into the train at Charlottetown and the red roads began to flash past I asked Mrs.
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