Usually means: Past tense indicating ongoing action.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. imperfect tense: Vocabulary.com
  2. imperfect tense: Wordnik
  3. imperfect tense: Wiktionary
  4. Imperfect tense, imperfect tense: Dictionary.com
  5. Imperfect tense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. imperfect tense: Rhymezone
  7. imperfect tense: FreeDictionary.org
  8. imperfect tense: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. imperfect tense: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imperfect tense: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imperfect tense: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imperfect tense: Medical dictionary

(Note: See imperfect_tenses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (imperfect tense)

noun:  (grammar) A tense used to describe a past action that is ongoing, incomplete or continuous, or coincident with another action.

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