Usually means: Expresses completed action in past.
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  1. the simple past: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  2. simple-past, simple past: Wiktionary
  3. Simple Past, Simple past (English), Simple past, The Simple Past (film), The Simple Past: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (simple past)

noun:  (grammar) A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by the inflection of a single word, without any auxiliary verb such as be or have.

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