had

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/ hæd /

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verb

simple past tense and past participle of have.

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His boss, whom he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

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How to use had in a sentence

And why do they feel such a need to commit Jen-icide or declare Angie-had on behalf of celebrities they will never meet?
Can't We All Be Friends?|Isabel Wilkinson|January 16, 2009|DAILY BEAST
She had-208- gone away to Heidelberg to do obeisance to Gubaryov, and was returning with instructions.
Smoke|Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich
If hadde is emphatic, meaning 'he possessed,' it is usually dissyllabic; we even find had-d he (A 298, 386).
Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 (of 7) -- Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes|Geoffrey Chaucer
The central part of it, where we have long-had an acquaintance with the natives, is called by them "Mai."
Life of John Coleridge Patteson|Charlotte M. Yonge

I was on the seafaring-man-who-had-lost-his-clothes-and-money tack, and they all condoled with me and gave me much sound advice.
The People of the Abyss|Jack London
And Bills used to say ef it hadn't a-be'n fer Ezry he'd a-never a-had no house, ner nothin' to putt in it, nuther!
Neghborly Poems and Dialect Sketches|James Whitcomb Riley

British Dictionary definitions for had

had

/ (hæd) /

verb

the past tense and past participle of have

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Other Idioms and Phrases with had

had

In addition to the idioms beginning with had

had better
had enough
had it
had its day, has
had one's fill
had rather

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British Dictionary definitions for had

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