garnish
verb (used with object)
had garnished
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past perfectof garnish.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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A few months later, she opened her paycheck and discovered the hospital had garnished her wages by $870 a month.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2019
Months later, he discovered why: A debt collector had garnished his bank account after suing him for about $4,500 the company said he owed on an old debt.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2015
Then she learned from a Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter that it was not Supportkids but the military that had garnished her ex-husband's wages.
From Time Magazine Archive
No fault, however, had we to find with the cutting facetiousness with which we had garnished "cotelettes d'Agneau à la réforme en surprise aux Champignons."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
Each had strained his fancy and his wit to the utmost, and each had garnished his part with agreeable and entertaining jests.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
