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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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#(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 .

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#*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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#*(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.

Verb

To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

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#* 1839 , Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist , Penguin 1985, page 87:

"What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver.

#* 2000 , Stephen King, On Writing , Pocket Books 2002, page 85:

In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.

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#* 1865 , British Medical Journal , 4 Mar 1865, page 213:

She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.

#* 2007 , Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune , Tor 2007, page 191:

"Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb. . ."

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#* 1961 , Joseph Heller, Catch-22 , Simon & Schuster 1999, page 232:

Englishmen are dying' for England, Americans are '''dying''' for America, Germans are '''dying''' for Germany, Russians are ' dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.

#* 2003 , Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (editors), Prison Nation , Routledge 2003, page 187:

Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.

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#* 1600 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act III, Scene I:

Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die' with mockes, / Which is as bad as ' die with tickling.

#* 1830 , Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon , Richards 1854, page 337:

And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.

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She died with dignity.

To stop living and undergo (a specified death).

He died a hero's death.

They died a thousand deaths.

(figuratively) To yearn intensely.

* 1598 , (Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing), Act III, Scene II:

Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.

* 2004 Paul Joseph Draus, Consumed in the city: observing tuberculosis at century's end - Page 168

I could see that he was dying, dying' for a cigarette, '''dying''' for a fix maybe, ' dying for a little bit of freedom, but trapped in a hospital bed and a sick body.

(idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.

The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.

(figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.

(colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die .

(intransitive, of a, machine) to stop working, to break down.

My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.

(intransitive, of a, computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).

To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

* Spectator

letting the secret die within his own breast

* Tennyson

Great deeds cannot die .

To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

* Bible, 1 Samuel xxv. 37

His heart died within, and he became as a stone.

To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

to die to pleasure or to sin

(architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

(of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...