Verb

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(lb) Physical movement.

#(lb) To move or be moved from one place to another.

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#(lb) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}

#*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)

, title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed . He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}

#(lb) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over.

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#*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

#*:I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.

#* (1609-1674)

#*:Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.

# To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.

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# To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.

#(lb) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.

## To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.

##* The Guardian , Rob Smyth, 20 June 2010

##*:Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.

##(lb) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.

## To make a lunge or swipe.

#(lb) To go from one person to another.

#(lb) To put in circulation; to give currency to.

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#(lbl) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.

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(lb) To change in state or status, to advance.

#(lb) To change from one state to another.

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#(lb) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.

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#*(rfdate) (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

#*:Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass .

#*, chapter=23

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}

#*1995 , Penny Richards, The Greatest Gift of All :

#*:The crisis passed as she'd prayed it would, but it remained to be seen just how much damage had been done.

# To die.

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# To go successfully through (an examination, trail, test, etc.).

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# To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).

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#*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter

, volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}

# To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.

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#(lb) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.

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#* (1809-1892)

#*:Pass the happy news.

# To make a judgment on'' or ''upon a person or case.

#*1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book X:

#*:And within three dayes twelve knyghtes passed uppon hem; and they founde Sir Palomydes gylty, and Sir Saphir nat gylty, of the lordis deth.

#(lb) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; to pledge.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:to pass sentence

#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

#*:Father, thy word is passed .

(lb) To move through time.

# To elapse, to be spent.

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# To spend.

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#*(rfdate) (John Milton) (1608-1674)

#*:To pass commodiously this life.

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#*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

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#(lb) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.

#*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:Please you that I may pass / This doing.

#*(rfdate) (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

#*:I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.

#(lb) To continue.

#(lb) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.

#(lb) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.

#*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#:She loved me for the dangers I had passed .

#To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition.

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(lb) To happen.

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*1876 , The Dilemma'', Chapter LIII, republished in Littell's ''Living Age , series 5, volume 14, page 274:

*:for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank.

(lb) To be accepted.

#(lb) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".

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#(lb) To present oneself as, and therefore be accepted by society as, a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard one as belonging; especially to live and be known as white although one has black ancestry, or to live and be known as female although one was born male (or vice versa).

In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.

#(lb) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.

(lb) To do or be better.

# To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.

#*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:This passes , Master Ford.

#(lb) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.

#*(rfdate) (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

#*:And strive to pass Their native music by her skillful art.

#*(rfdate) (w) (1788-1824)

#*:Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.

To take heed.

*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.

(lb) To come and go in consciousness.