umpire
noun
a person selected to rule on the plays in a game.
had umpired
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past perfectof umpire.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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General Brehon B. Somervell, the Army's aggressive Chief of the Services of Supply, was asked who had umpired the fight.
From Time Magazine Archive
On one occasion there was a quarrel between mother and daughter over the result of a spelling-match between them which I had umpired and which Lucy had won.
From The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan
