peach
noun
the subacid, juicy, drupaceous fruit of a tree, Prunus persica, of the rose family.
had peached
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past perfectof peach.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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As soon as you said that some one had peached to-day I knew who it was.
From Shrewsbury A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
It was the lad who had peached upon him about the grocer's cart, but he bore little malice, not at least towards the young and small.
From Boys and girls from Thackeray by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
They would not know how much this boy could tell about them, but if he went back to you they would guess that he had peached.
From When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
It was the lad who had peached upon him about the grocer's cart; but he bore little malice, not at least towards the young and small.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
As for the Lady, he even let his children visit her at Lichtenberg; Crypto-Protestants all; and, among them, the repentant Daughter who had peached upon her.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle
