pass - Thesaurus Synonyms and Word Suggestions

verb

To move along a particular course: fare, go, journey, proceed, push on, remove, travel, wend. Idiom: make one's way. See move
To make or go on a journey: journey, peregrinate, travel, trek, trip. Idiom: hit the road. See move
To catch up with and move past: overhaul, overtake. See approach
To be greater or better than: best, better ¹, exceed, excel, outdo, outmatch, outrun, outshine, outstrip, surpass, top, transcend. Informal: beat. Idioms: go beyond, go one better. See big
To go across: cross, track, transit, traverse. See move
To move past in time: elapse, go (by), lapse. See time
To cause to be transferred from one to another: convey, hand (over), transmit. See give
To make known: break, carry, communicate, convey, disclose, get across, impart, report, tell, transmit. See knowledge
To cause (a disease) to pass to another or others: carry, communicate, convey, give, spread, transmit. See move
To come as by lot or inheritance: devolve, fall. See reach
To convey (something) from one generation to the next. Along or on: bequeath, hand down, hand on, transmit. See give
To move toward a termination: go, go away, pass away. See approach, increase, time
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 (or Maker), pass on to the Great Beyond, turn up one's toes. See live
To take place: befall, betide, come, come about, come off, develop, hap, happen, occur, transpire. Idiom: come to pass. See happen
To use time in a particular way: put in, spend. See time
To go through (life) in a certain way: lead, live ¹, pursue. See be
To represent oneself in a given character or as other than what one is: attitudinize, impersonate, masquerade, pose, posture. Idiom: pass oneself off as. See honest
To be accepted or approved: carry, clear. See accept
To accept officially: adopt, affirm, approve, confirm, ratify, sanction. See accept, law

phrasal verb

pass away

To move toward a termination: go, go away, pass. See approach, increase, time
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 (or Maker), pass on to the Great Beyond, turn up one's toes. See live

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pass off

To offer or put into circulation (an inferior or spurious item): fob off, foist, palm off, put off. See honest

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pass out

To suffer temporary lack of consciousness: black out, faint, keel over, swoon. See awareness

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pass over

To pretend not to see: blink (at), connive at, disregard, ignore, wink at. Idioms: be blind to, close (or shut) one's eyes to, look the other way, turn a blind eye to. See see

noun

A free ticket entitling one to transportation or admission: Informal: comp. Slang: freebie. See enter, transactions
A decisive point: climacteric, crisis, crossroad (used in plural), exigence, exigency, head, juncture, turning point, zero hour. See decide

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