to pass
- verb
- /pæs/
- Formal
- Despite our best efforts to save him, Alex Murphy passed away just hours ago.
When you're saying stuff about my daughter that's passed away, that's hard.
- When you're saying stuff about my daughter that's passed away, that's hard.
- And certainly when we pass, they will.
- My wife, her father passed, so her father.
- And your father passed when you were how old?
- And then when he when he passed, it was easy.
- So when she passed away, I had it.
- So until Prince passed away last year, I just never knew.
- She said someone who'd passed was trying to contact me as well.
- He's now just passed away, but he was a superstar.
- And while you inside, your Mama passed, right?
- I had this one little old man and he's now since passed, but his name was Clarence.
- But when your mum passed while you was in prison, what was that like?
- God bless me passed away and a lovely guy.
- Yeah, my mother had four husbands before she passed away In Lovers.
Examples
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When he passed away, were you surprised that he-- -Died?
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When you're saying stuff about my daughter that's passed away, that's hard.
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And your father passed when you were how old?
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So when she passed away, I had it.
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So until Prince passed away last year, I just never knew.
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Because before he passed, I was writing him letters.
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When she passed, I respected her decision.
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During COVID, my wife's grandfather passed and he was Catholic.
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Six years after Savory passed away, his collection was acquired by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.
Academic text (2011) -
Despite his age, the beloved actor passed away peacefully in his sleep.
Synonyms
To stop living and no longer be alive
To die, said in a gentle or polite way
To die suddenly or violently, often in large numbers
Die suddenly, often from shock or extreme tiredness
To die, said in a casual or joking way
To die, often used in medical or formal speech
To die peacefully in a gentle, respectful way
To die, said in casual or joking speech
To die suddenly, often in an accident or during fighting
To die or stop working after a long time of problems
To stop living and not come back
To stop living as a natural part of life
To die, often said as a joke to make it seem less serious
To die in a light, not serious way
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
How Polite
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pass comes from the Old French passer and the Latin passus, meaning 'to go across' or 'move on'. Saying someone passed is a gentle way to say they moved on from life to what comes after, using the image of moving across a boundary.