to pass away
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3.8
- phrasal verb
- /pæs əˈweɪ/
:
fallecer
- Who will you have when your parents pass away?
- passed away two years ago
- just passed away
After six years, he passed away in an accident in April.
- After six years, he passed away in an accident in April.
- My next sister, Suzanne, she passed away from Parkinson's disease just this year.
- The two guys, one of them's passed away.
- One of them now sells ice cream and the other passed away.
- Three weeks later, my son's best friend from first grade passes away.
- People are hypothesizing he's going to pass away.
- And I said, no, no, we're going to take her home and she will, if she passes away, it'll be here in our house.
- Of course, she she's passed away.
- So you put this together, your mom passes away and you decided, well, I'm going to go into advertising.
- And my sister, she has two kids and her oldest son Adam, he just passed away in October from cancer.
- So my mum tattoo, as a lot of you guys will know, my mum did pass away a couple of months after I got this.
- But I think it's really unfair to then like, like my mom had her grandpa pass away on her birthday.
Examples
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He passed away when I was ten.
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- He passed away nine years ago.
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After six years, he passed away in an accident in April.
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And then she passed away that April.
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We like to think that after the people we love pass away, they stick around and watch over us.
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I didn't expect him to pass away so suddenly.
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She passed away 30 years ago.
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When my mother passed away, it was left for my brothers, my sister, and me to "sit shiva."
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The National Bureau of Economic Research found that nearly half of Americans pass away penniless.
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Her husband passed away peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by family.
Synonyms
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1.0
To stop living and no longer be alive
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6.0
To die suddenly or violently, often in large numbers
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8.4
Die suddenly, often from shock or extreme tiredness
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9.0
To die, said in a casual or joking way
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8.6
To die, often used in medical or formal speech
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8.6
To die, said in casual or joking speech
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9.9
To die suddenly, often in an accident or during fighting
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8.1
To die or stop working after a long time of problems
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7.9
To stop living
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9.9
To stop living and not come back
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8.5
To stop living
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9.7
To stop living as a natural part of life
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9.1
To die, often said as a joke to make it seem less serious
To stop working or to die after a long time of getting worse
To die in a light, not serious way
Antonyms
How Polite
Surface Forms
Morphology
pass + away
The meaning is a euphemistic/metaphorical extension of the constituents: 'pass' (move/go) + 'away' (from here) yields the idea of 'moving away from life', so a learner can partially infer the sense. However the death sense is a conventionalized euphemism rather than a literal compositional meaning, and many learners who only know the basic senses of 'pass' and 'away' may not predict the idiomatic use without exposure.
Etymology
Pass away comes from the image of someone quietly moving from this life to another place, like walking out of a room. The verb pass means to move and away means gone, so the phrase is a gentle way to say 'to die'.