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P0095200 (păs)v. passed, pass·ing, pass·es v.intr.1. To move on or ahead; proceed: The train passed through fields of wheat.2. To extend; run: The river passes through our land.3. a. To move by or in front of something: The band passed and the crowd cheered.b. To move past another vehicle: The sports car passed on the right.4. To gain passage despite obstacles: pass through difficult years.5. To move past in time; elapse: The days passed quickly.6. a. To be transferred from one to another; circulate: The wine passed around the table.b. Sports To transfer a ball or puck to a teammate.7. To be communicated or exchanged between persons: Loud words passed in the corridor.8. To be transferred or conveyed to another by will or deed: The title passed to the older heir.9. To undergo transition from one condition, form, quality, or characteristic to another: Daylight passed into darkness.10. To come to an end: My anger suddenly passed. The headache finally passed.11. To cease to exist; die. Often used with on: The patient passed on during the night.12. To happen; take place: wanted to know what had passed at the meeting.13. a. To be allowed to happen without notice or challenge: Let their rude remarks pass.b. Sports & Games To decline one's turn to bid, draw, bet, compete, or play.c. To decline an offer: When we offered him dessert, he passed.14. To undergo an examination or a trial with favorable results.15. a. To serve as a barely acceptable substitute: The spare tire was nearly bald but would pass until we bought a new one.b. To be accepted as a member of a group by denying one's own ancestry or background.16. To be approved or adopted: The motion to adjourn passed.17. Law a. To make a decision: to pass upon a legal question.b. To convey property to an heir or heirs: to pass according to the terms of the will.18. Medicine To be discharged from a bodily part: The patient had a lot of pain when the kidney stone passed.19. Sports To thrust or lunge in fencing.v.tr.1. a. To go by without stopping; proceed beyond or leave behind: The bus passed a gas station.b. To go across; go through: We passed the border into Mexico.2. To allow to go by or elapse; spend: He passed his winter in Vermont.3. a. To go by without paying attention to; disregard or ignore: If you pass the new photographs in the collection, you'll miss some outstanding ones.b. To fail to pay (a dividend).4. To go beyond; surpass: The inheritance passed my wildest dreams.5. a. To undergo (a trial or examination) with favorable results: She passed every test.b. To cause or allow to go through a trial, test, or examination successfully: The instructor passed all the candidates.6. a. To cause to move: We passed our hands over the fabric.b. To cause to move into a certain position: pass a ribbon around a package.c. To cause to move as part of a process: pass liquid through a filter.d. To cause to go by: The sergeant passed his troops before the grandstand.e. To allow to cross a barrier: The border guard passed the tourists.f. Baseball To walk (a batter).g. To maneuver (the bull) by means of a pase in bullfighting.7. a. To cause to be transferred from one to another; circulate: They passed the news quickly.b. To hand over to someone else: Please pass the bread.c. Sports To transfer (a ball, for example) to a teammate, as by throwing.d. To cause to be accepted; circulate fraudulently: pass counterfeit money.e. Law To convey (property) to an heir or heirs: to pass an estate.8. Medicine To discharge (a waste product, for example) from a bodily part.9. Medicine To introduce (an instrument) into a bodily cavity.10. a. To approve; adopt: The legislature passed the bill.b. To be sanctioned, ratified, or approved by: The bill passed the House of Representatives.11. To pronounce; utter: pass judgment; pass sentence on an offender.n.1. The act of passing; passage.2. A way, such as a narrow gap between mountains, that affords passage around, over, or through a barrier.3. a. A permit, ticket, or authorization to come and go at will.b. A free ticket entitling one to transportation or admission.c. Written leave of absence from military duty.d. A passing grade, especially when graded using a pass-fail grading system.4. a. A sweep or run, as by an aircraft, over or toward an area or target.b. A single complete cycle of operations, as by a machine or computer program.5. A condition or situation, often critical in nature; a predicament: contract negotiations that had come to an emotional pass.6. A sexual invitation or overture: Was he making a pass at her?7. A motion of the hand or the waving of a wand: The magician made a pass over the hat.8. a. Sports A transfer of a ball or puck between teammates.b. Sports A lunge or thrust in fencing.c. Baseball A base on balls.9. Sports & Games A refusal to bid, draw, bet, compete, or play.10. Games A winning throw of the dice in craps.11. A pase in bullfighting.Phrasal Verbs: pass away1. To pass out of existence; end.2. To die. pass for To be accepted as or believed to be: You could pass for a teenager. The fake painting passed for an original. pass off1. To offer, sell, or put into circulation (an imitation) as genuine: pass off glass as a gemstone.2. To present (one's self) as other than what one is: tried to pass himself off as a banker. pass out To lose consciousness. pass over To leave out; disregard. pass up Informal To let go by; reject: pass up a chance for promotion; an opportunity too good to pass up.Idioms: bring to pass To cause to happen. come to pass To occur. pass muster To pass an examination or inspection; measure up to a given standard. pass (one's) lips1. To be eaten or drunk.2. To issue or be spoken: Rumors never passed her lips. pass the hat To take up a collection of money. pass the time of day To exchange greetings or engage in pleasantries. pass the torch To relinquish (responsibilities, for example) to another or others.

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[Middle English passen, from Old French passer, from Vulgar Latin passāre, from Latin passus, step; see pace¹.]

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pass′er n.Usage Note: The past tense and past participle of pass is passed: They passed (or have passed) our home. Time had passed slowly. Past is the corresponding adjective (in centuries past), adverb (drove past), preposition (past midnight), and noun (lived in the past).

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	pass away - pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"croak, decease, die, drop dead, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, perish, snuff it, pop off, expire, conk, exit, choke, go, passabort - cease development, die, and be aborted; "an aborting fetus"change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"buy it, pip out - be killed or die;drown - die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"predecease - die before; die earlier than; "She predeceased her husband"conk out, go bad, break down, die, fail, give out, give way, break, go - stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"starve, famish - die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"die - suffer or face the pain of death; "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"fall - die, as in battle or in a hunt; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead"succumb, yield - be fatally overwhelmed
	2.	pass away - go out of existence; "She hoped that the problem would eventually pass away"end, cease, terminate, finish, stop - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

pass

verb1. To move along a particular course:fare, go, journey, proceed, push on, remove, travel, wend.Idiom: make one's way.2. To make or go on a journey:journey, peregrinate, travel, trek, trip.Idiom: hit the road.3. To catch up with and move past:overhaul, overtake.4. To be greater or better than:best, better, exceed, excel, outdo, outmatch, outrun, outshine, outstrip, surpass, top, transcend.Informal: beat.Idioms: go beyond, go one better.5. To go across:cross, track, transit, traverse.6. To move past in time:elapse, go (by), lapse.7. To cause to be transferred from one to another:convey, hand (over), transmit.8. To make known:break, carry, communicate, convey, disclose, get across, impart, report, tell, transmit.9. To cause (a disease) to pass to another or others:carry, communicate, convey, give, spread, transmit.10. To come as by lot or inheritance:devolve, fall.11. To convey (something) from one generation to the next.Along or on:bequeath, hand down, hand on, transmit.12. To move toward a termination:go, go away, pass away.13. To cease living.Also used with on:decease, demise, depart, die, drop, expire, go, pass away, perish, succumb.Informal: pop off.Slang: check out, croak, kick in, kick off.Idioms: bite the dust, breathe one's last, cash in, give up the ghost, go to one's grave, kick the bucket, meet one's end, pass on to the Great Beyond, turn up one's toes.14. To take place:befall, betide, come, come about, come off, develop, hap, happen, occur, transpire.Idiom: come to pass.15. To use time in a particular way:put in, spend.16. To go through (life) in a certain way:lead, live, pursue.17. To represent oneself in a given character or as other than what one is:attitudinize, impersonate, masquerade, pose, posture.Idiom: pass oneself off as.18. To be accepted or approved:carry, clear.19. To accept officially:adopt, affirm, approve, confirm, ratify, sanction.phrasal verb
pass away1. To move toward a termination:go, go away, pass.2. To cease living:decease, demise, depart, die, drop, expire, go, pass (on), perish, succumb.Informal: pop off.Slang: check out, croak, kick in, kick off.Idioms: bite the dust, breathe one's last, cash in, give up the ghost, go to one's grave, kick the bucket, meet one's end, pass on to the Great Beyond, turn up one's toes.phrasal verb
pass offTo offer or put into circulation (an inferior or spurious item):fob off, foist, palm off, put off.phrasal verb
pass outTo suffer temporary lack of consciousness:black out, faint, keel over, swoon.phrasal verb
pass overTo pretend not to see:blink (at), connive at, disregard, ignore, wink at.Idioms: be blind to, close one's eyes to, look the other way, turn a blind eye to.noun1. A free ticket entitling one to transportation or admission:Informal: comp.Slang: freebie.2. A decisive point:climacteric, crisis, crossroad (used in plural), exigence, exigency, head, juncture, turning point, zero hour.

Translations

去世

pass

(paːs) verb1. to move towards and then beyond (something, by going past, through, by, over etc). I pass the shops on my way to work; The procession passed along the corridor. 經過 经过2. to move, give etc from one person, state etc to another. They passed the photographs around; The tradition is passed (on/down) from father to son. 相傳，傳遞 相传，传递 3. to go or be beyond. This passes my understanding. 超出 超出4. (of vehicles etc on a road) to overtake. The sports car passed me at a dangerous bend in the road. 超過 超过5. to spend (time). They passed several weeks in the country. 度過 度过6. (of an official group, government etc) to accept or approve. The government has passed a resolution. 批准 批准7. to give or announce (a judgement or sentence). The magistrate passed judgement on the prisoner. 宣佈 宣布8. to end or go away. His sickness soon passed. 消失 消失9. to (judge to) be successful in (an examination etc). I passed my driving test. 通過，及格 通过，及格 noun1. a narrow path between mountains. a mountain pass. 要隘 要隘2. a ticket or card allowing a person to do something, eg to travel free or to get in to a building. You must show your pass before entering. 通行證 通行证3. a successful result in an examination, especially when below a distinction, honours etc. There were ten passes and no fails. 及格 及格4. (in ball games) a throw, kick, hit etc of the ball from one player to another. The centre-forward made a pass towards the goal. 傳球 传球ˈpassable adjective1. fairly good. a passable tennis player. 合格的 合格的2. (of a river, road etc) able to be passed, travelled over etc. The mud has made the roads no longer passable. 可通行的 可通行的ˈpassing adjective1. going past. a passing car. 經過的 经过的2. lasting only a short time. a passing interest. 一時的，短暫的 一时的，短暂的 3. (of something said) casual and not made as part of a serious talk about the subject. a passing reference. 順便的 顺便的ˌpasser-ˈby – plural ˌpassers-ˈby – noun a person who is going past a place when something happens. He asked the passers-by if they had seen the accident. 過路人 过路人ˈpassword noun a secret word by which those who know it can recognize each other and be allowed to go past, enter etc. He was not allowed into the army camp because he did not know the password. 口令，暗語 口令，暗号 in passing while doing or talking about something else; without explaining fully what one means. He told her the story, and said in passing that he did not completely believe it. 順便 顺便let (something) pass to ignore something rather than take the trouble to argue. I'll let that pass. 放過 放过pass as/for to be mistaken for or accepted as. Some man-made materials could pass as silk; His nasty remarks pass for wit among his admirers. 被錯認為 被错认为pass away to die. Her grandmother passed away last night. 去世 去世pass the buck to give the responsibility or blame for something to someone else. She always passes the buck if she is asked to do anything. 推卸責任給 推卸责任给pass by to go past (a particular place). I was passing by when the bride arrived at the church; She passed by the hospital on the way to the library. 從...旁而過 从...旁而过pass off (of sickness, an emotion etc) to go away. By the evening, his sickness had passed off and he felt better. 結束 结束pass (something or someone) off as to pretend that (something or someone) is (something or someone else). He passed himself off as a journalist. 冒充為... 冒充为...pass on1. to give to someone else (usually something which one has been given by a third person). I passed on his message. 把...傳給 把...传给2. to die. His mother passed on yesterday. 去世 去世pass out1. to faint. I feel as though I'm going to pass out. 昏倒 昏倒2. to give to several different people. The teacher passed out books to her class. 散髮 散发pass over to ignore or overlook. They passed him over for promotion. 不注意，忽略，忽視 不注意，忽视 pass up not to accept (a chance, opportunity etc). He passed up the offer of a good job. 放過(機會等) 放过（机会等）

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passed is the past tense of to pass: He passed the scene of the accident .
past means up to and beyond: She walked past the shops .