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elieve she would pass chemistry, but pass she did. 5 spend,
devote, use (up), expend, employ, occupy, fill, while away, take
(up); dissipate, waste, fritter away, kill: He passed his time
on Devil's Island planning ways to escape. 6 surpass, exceed,
outdo, transcend, go beyond, overshoot, outstrip, outrun,
surmount, outdistance: She passed her own expectations in
winning the scholarship. How Alan ever got a degree passes all
comprehension. 7 allow, tolerate, permit, approve, sanction,
accept, authorize, endorse, carry, agree to, confirm: The
customs inspectors passed my luggage without question. The bill
passed the committee and came up for voting. 8 give, hand round
or along or over, transfer, pass on or over, deliver, convey,
Sports US hand off, Colloq toss, throw, reach: Please pass the
salt. The sweeper passed the ball back to the goalkeeper. 9
utter, express, issue, declare, pronounce, deliver, set forth,
offer: Who is she to pass judgement on abstract paintings? 10
go away, disappear, vanish, evaporate, fade away, melt away,
evanesce, cease (to exist), (come to an) end, die out, go by the
board, terminate, Literary evanish, Colloq blow over: For an
instant I was gripped by a horrible fear, but the feeling
passed. 11 go (by), expire, elapse; slip by or away, fly; crawl,
creep, drag: Weeks have passed since we last met. Time passes
quickly when you're having fun. 12 evacuate, void, eliminate,
excrete, defecate, urinate: The tests showed that he had passed
some gravel in his urine. 13 come to pass. befall, happen,
occur, take place, come about, arise, Colloq come off: And it
came to pass that a great pestilence was abroad in the land. 14
pass away. a die, expire, perish, succumb, breathe one's last,
pass on, go to one's reward, go to one's final or last
resting-place, (go to) meet one's Maker, Colloq go west, give up
the ghost, Slang croak, kick the bucket, Chiefly US bite the
dust, turn up one's toes: He was the sole beneficiary when she
passed away. b vanish, disappear, go away, stop, cease, end:
The feeling of vertigo simply passed away when the plane landed.
15 pass by. See 1, above: The strikers were urging people to
pass by the shop. 16 pass for or as. a be taken for, be
mistaken for, be regarded as, be accepted as: He wrote a book
about being a man who passed for a woman. b impersonate,
imitate, mimic, pass (oneself) off as, come or go as, be
disguised as, disguise oneself as, assume the guise of,
masquerade as, pose as, assume the role of, act the part of, act
like, pretend to be, play: Using her best cockney accent, she
tried to pass as a Londoner. 17 pass off. evaporate, disappear,