to pass
- verb
- /pæs/
- NSFW
- You, you eat it, but it just passes right through you.
- pass urine
- pass water
- pass air
Trump is slang in Britain for to pass wind.
- Trump is slang in Britain for to pass wind.
- You, you eat it, but it just passes right through you.
- I had been told that it would be normal to pass lemon sized clots.
- You would pass these through, you wouldn't absorb them and without the fat soluble vitamins you would be dead in a few days.
- Just not saying that because my doctor said it would help me pass stuff through better.
Examples
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The thermal paper has BPA in it too, and it passes right through the skin.
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"Bacteria is always present during delivery, but usually it passes out of the body.
Fiction book (1996) -
Just not saying that because my doctor said it would help me pass stuff through better.
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Only the dense sickle cells can pass through the bottom and make a layer.
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I had been told that it would be normal to pass lemon sized clots.
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In view of severe breathlessness, an intercostal tube was passed to drain the fluid.
Academic text (2007) -
After sanitization, water was passed through the units until the residual chlorine was less than 1 mg/L.
Academic text (1997) -
The scope is lubricated and passed transnasally, and the pharyngeal and laryngeal structures are examined.
Academic text (2004) -
After a week of eating well, I finally passed the kidney stone without pain.
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Doctors often monitor patients to ensure they pass any foreign objects safely from their bodies.
Synonyms
Remove waste or harmful substances from the body
To pass solid waste out of the body
Push out a substance, for example gas from a body or container
To poop solid waste out of the body
To remove waste from the body through urine, sweat or breath
To move waste out of the body, usually from the bowels
To push out waste from the body after digestion
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To give responsibility or control to another person during a planned change
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
Send a value or setting from a main part of a program to its smaller parts
Compounds
- Informal
An excuse that lets someone avoid rules or blame because of their position
- US
A written note from a teacher that allows a student to leave class and go into the hallway
- Specialized
A device that lets slow changes in signals pass and reduces fast changes
- NSFW
Permission from a partner to be romantic or sexual with someone outside the relationship
A mountain road through the Alps that links Innsbruck in Austria with Bolzano in Italy
A narrow mountain route between Pakistan and Afghanistan used for trade and army movements
- NSFW
A high mountain pass near Lake Tahoe where trapped pioneers ate human flesh to survive
- Jargon
A short forward pass to a player running toward the sideline in American football
- Jargon
A pass that goes sideways or backward instead of forward in American football
- Specialized
An electronic part that lets high sounds pass and reduces low sounds
- Specialized
A setting that lets signals or data pass through unchanged to another device
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Pass comes from the Old French passer and the Latin passus, meaning 'to go through' or 'move out'. To pass a stone or to 'pass' something from the body is to let it move out and go through the body to the outside.