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PASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Success in satisfying a test or requirement
Example:
he got a pass in introductory chemistry
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
success (an attainment that is successful)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
Example:
the pass was fumbled
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
throw (the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist))
Domain category:
athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):
centering; snap ((American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
Example:
he worked the pitcher for a base on balls
Synonyms:
base on balls; pass; walk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A flight or run by an aircraft over a target
Example:
the plane turned to make a second pass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
flight; flying (an instance of traveling by air)
Sense 5
Meaning:
(American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
Example:
the coach sent in a passing play on third and long
Synonyms:
pass; passing; passing game; passing play
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
football play ((American football) a play by the offensive team)
Domain category:
American football; American football game (a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):
aerial; forward pass (a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer)
lateral; lateral pass (a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer)
spot pass (a pass to a designated spot on the field; the receiver should arrive at that spot the same time the ball does)
Derivation:
pass (throw (a ball) to another player)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A usually brief attempt
Example:
I gave it a whirl
Synonyms:
crack; fling; go; offer; pass; whirl
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
attempt; effort; endeavor; endeavour; try (earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something)
Sense 7
Meaning:
A complimentary ticket
Example:
the star got passes for his family
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
ticket (a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment))
Sense 8
Meaning:
A permit to enter or leave a military installation
Example:
he had to show his pass in order to get out
Synonyms:
liberty chit; pass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
licence; license; permit (a legal document giving official permission to do something)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Sense 9
Meaning:
A document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
Example:
the media representatives had special passes
Synonyms:
laissez passer; pass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
permission (approval to do something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):
boarding card; boarding pass (a pass that allows you to board a ship or plane)
hall pass (written permission from a teacher for a student to be out the classroom and in the halls of the school)
ticket-of-leave (a permit formerly given to convicts allowing them to leave prison under specific restrictions)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Any authorization to pass or go somewhere
Example:
the pass to visit had a strict time limit
Synonyms:
pass; passport
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
permission (approval to do something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):
safe-conduct; safeguard (a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war)
Derivation:
pass (grant authorization or clearance for)
Sense 11
Meaning:
An automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
Example:
he had a bye in the first round
Synonyms:
bye; pass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
conceding; concession; yielding (the act of conceding or yielding)
Derivation:
pass (accept or judge as acceptable)
Sense 12
Meaning:
One complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
Example:
it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
cycle; oscillation (a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon)
Domain category:
computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)
Sense 13
Meaning:
A difficult juncture
Example:
matters came to a head yesterday
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
juncture; occasion (an event that occurs at a critical time)
Sense 14
Meaning:
The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
Example:
we got through the pass before it started to snow
Synonyms:
mountain pass; notch; pass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
location (a point or extent in space)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):
col; gap (a pass between mountain peaks)
defile; gorge (a narrow pass (especially one between mountains))
saddle; saddleback (a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle))
Instance hyponyms:
Brenner Pass (an Alpine mountain pass connecting Innsbruck in Austria with Bolzano in Italy that has long been a route for trade and for invasions)
Cumberland Gap (a pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west)
Donner Pass (a mountain pass in northeastern California near Lake Tahoe; site where in 1844 some members of an emigrant party survived by eating those who had died)
Khyber Pass (a mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India)
Holonyms ("pass" is a part of...):
chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)
Sense 15
Meaning:
A bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
Synonyms:
pass; strait; straits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
situation (a complex or critical or unusual difficulty)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):
desperate straits; dire straits (a state of extreme distress)
Sense 16
Meaning:
(military) a written leave of absence
Example:
he had a pass for three days
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):
leave; leave of absence (the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of advancing the ball by throwing it
Example:
a pass play
Synonyms:
pass; passing
Classified under:
Domain category:
football; football game (any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they pass ... he / she / it passes
Past simple: passed
Past participle: passed
-ing form: passing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eliminate from the body
Example:
Pass a kidney stone
Synonyms:
egest; eliminate; excrete; pass
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
discharge; eject; exhaust; expel; release (eliminate (a substance))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
perspire; sudate; sweat (excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin)
exudate; exude; ooze; ooze out; transude (release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities)
make; make water; micturate; pass water; pee; pee-pee; piddle; piss; puddle; relieve oneself; spend a penny; take a leak; urinate; wee; wee-wee (eliminate urine)
urinate (pass after the manner of urine)
empty; evacuate; void (excrete or discharge from the body)
ca-ca; crap; defecate; make; shit; stool; take a crap; take a shit (have a bowel movement)
barf; be sick; cast; cat; chuck; disgorge; honk; puke; purge; regorge; regurgitate; retch; sick; spew; spue; throw up; upchuck; vomit; vomit up (eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
passing (a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Come to pass
Example:
Nothing occurred that seemed important
Synonyms:
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
break; develop; recrudesce (happen)
arise; come up (result or issue)
result (come about or follow as a consequence)
intervene (occur between other event or between certain points of time)
transpire (come about, happen, or occur)
give (occur)
supervene (take place as an additional or unexpected development)
go; proceed (follow a certain course)
come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)
fall (occur at a specified time or place)
anticipate (be a forerunner of or occur earlier than)
develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)
recur; repeat (happen or occur again)
come off; go off; go over (happen in a particular manner)
come around; roll around (happen regularly)
happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)
bechance; befall; happen (happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance)
bechance; befall; betide (become of; happen to)
coincide; concur (happen simultaneously)
backfire; backlash; recoil (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect)
chance (be the case by chance)
break (happen or take place)
fall; shine; strike (touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly)
turn out (prove to be in the result or end)
contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (happen at the same time)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 3
Meaning:
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Example:
The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
Synonyms:
buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Verb group:
break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)
die (suffer or face the pain of death)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)
asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)
buy it; pip out (be killed or die)
drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)
predecease (die before; die earlier than)
famish; starve (die of food deprivation)
fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)
succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
passing (euphemistic expressions for death)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Disappear gradually
Example:
The pain eventually passed off
Synonyms:
blow over; evanesce; fade; fleet; pass; pass off
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Derivation:
passing (the end of something)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Transmit information
Example:
pass along the good news
Synonyms:
communicate; pass; pass along; pass on; put across
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
communicate; convey; transmit (transfer to another)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
implant; plant (put firmly in the mind)
send a message (give or constitute a signal, not necessarily verbally)
relay (pass along)
get across; put over (communicate successfully)
ask for; bespeak; call for; quest; request (express the need or desire for)
telecommunicate (communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail)
acknowledge; receipt (report the receipt of)
carry (pass on a communication)
deliver; render; return (pass down)
message (send as a message)
message (send a message to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sense 6
Meaning:
Grant authorization or clearance for
Example:
The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography
Synonyms:
authorise; authorize; clear; pass
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
approbate (approve or sanction officially)
certificate (authorize by certificate)
approve; O.K.; okay; sanction (give sanction to)
declare (authorize payments of)
certify; licence; license (authorize officially)
commission (charge with a task)
formalise; formalize; validate (declare or make legally valid)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Derivation:
pass (any authorization to pass or go somewhere)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Pass over, across, or through
Example:
He drew her hair through his fingers
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Verb group:
draw; string; thread (thread on or as if on a string)
lead; run (cause something to pass or lead somewhere)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
rub (move over something with pressure)
thread (pass through or into)
thread (pass a thread through)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something PP
Also:
pass around (cause to become widely known)
pass over (rub with a circular motion)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Pass into a specified state or condition
Example:
He sank into nirvana
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
move (go or proceed from one point to another)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
passage (the act of passing from one state or place to the next)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Travel past
Example:
The sports car passed all the trucks
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
get by (pass or move in front of)
clear; top (pass by, over, or under without making contact)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
These cars won't pass
Derivation:
passage (the motion of one object relative to another)
passing (going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it)
passing (the motion of one object relative to another)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Go across or through
Example:
A terrible thought went through his mind
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
break through; crack (pass through (a barrier))
squeak by; squeak through (escape)
transit (pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place))
cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse (travel across or pass over)
infiltrate; pass through (pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict)
run (cover by running; run a certain distance)
move through; pass across; pass over; pass through; transit (make a passage or journey from one place to another)
cut (pass directly and often in haste)
crash (move violently as through a barrier)
muscle (make one's way by force)
overstep; transgress; trespass (pass beyond (limits or boundaries))
negociate; negotiate (succeed in passing through, around, or over)
lock (pass by means through a lock in a waterway)
make; work (proceed along a path)
cycle (pass through a cycle)
blunder; fumble (make one's way clumsily or blindly)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Also:
pass over (bypass)
pass over (travel across or pass over)
pass over (make a passage or journey from one place to another)
Sense 11
Meaning:
Move past
Example:
One line of soldiers surpassed the other
Synonyms:
go by; go past; pass; pass by; surpass; travel by
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
skirt (pass around or about; move along the border)
run by (pass by while running)
fly by (pass by while flying)
fly by; whisk by; zip by (move by very quickly)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
These cars won't pass
Derivation:
passer (a person who passes by casually or by chance)
Sense 12
Meaning:
Cause to pass
Example:
She passed around the plates
Synonyms:
make pass; pass
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Cause:
pass (go across or through)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
cycle (cause to go through a recurring sequence)
pass off (cause to be circulated and accepted in a false character or identity)
pass through (cause to move through)
lead; run (cause something to pass or lead somewhere)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 13
Meaning:
Pass by
Example:
three years elapsed
Synonyms:
elapse; glide by; go along; go by; lapse; pass; slide by; slip away; slip by
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
fell; fly; vanish (pass away rapidly)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 14
Meaning:
Transfer to another; of rights or property
Example:
Our house passed under his official control
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 15
Meaning:
Be inherited by
Example:
The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead
Synonyms:
devolve; fall; pass; return
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
change hands; change owners (be transferred to another owner)
Verb group:
accrue; fall (come into the possession of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
fall; light (fall to somebody by assignment or lot)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Sense 16
Meaning:
Place into the hands or custody of
Example:
He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers
Synonyms:
give; hand; pass; pass on; reach; turn over
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
transfer (cause to change ownership)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
give (leave with; give temporarily)
slip; sneak (pass on stealthily)
deal (give (a specific card) to a player)
deliver; fork out; fork over; fork up; hand over; render; turn in (to surrender someone or something to another)
free; give up; release; relinquish; resign (part with a possession or right)
commit; confide; entrust; intrust; trust (confer a trust upon)
entrust; leave (put into the care or protection of someone)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sentence examples:
They pass the food to the people
They pass the people the food
Also:
pass on (transmit information)
pass on (give to or transfer possession of)
pass on (transmit (knowledge or skills))
pass on (refer to another person for decision or judgment)
Derivation:
passage (the act of passing something to another person)
Sense 17
Meaning:
Throw (a ball) to another player
Example:
Smith passed
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
throw (propel through the air)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Derivation:
pass ((American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate)
passer ((football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass)
passing ((American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate)
Sense 18
Meaning:
Allow to go without comment or censure
Example:
the insult passed as if unnoticed
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
allow; let; permit (make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 19
Meaning:
Make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
Example:
We cannot legislate how people spend their free time
Synonyms:
legislate; pass
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
enact; ordain (order by virtue of superior authority; decree)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
passage (the passing of a law by a legislative body)
Sense 20
Meaning:
Go unchallenged; be approved
Example:
The bill cleared the House
Synonyms:
clear; pass
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win (attain success or reach a desired goal)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
clear (pass an inspection or receive authorization)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sense 21
Meaning:
Accept or judge as acceptable
Example:
The teacher passed the student although he was weak
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
evaluate; judge; pass judgment (form a critical opinion of)
Cause:
make it; pass (go successfully through a test or a selection process)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Antonym:
fail (judge unacceptable)
Derivation:
pass (an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent)
passing (success in satisfying a test or requirement)
Sense 22
Meaning:
Go successfully through a test or a selection process
Example:
She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now
Synonyms:
make it; pass
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win (attain success or reach a desired goal)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
ace; breeze through; nail; pass with flying colors; sail through; sweep through (succeed at easily)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
fail (fail to get a passing grade)
Derivation:
passer (a student who passes an examination)
passing (success in satisfying a test or requirement)
Sense 23
Meaning:
Be superior or better than some standard
Example:
She topped her performance of last year
Synonyms:
exceed; go past; overstep; pass; top; transcend
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
excel; stand out; surpass (distinguish oneself)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 24
Meaning:
Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
Example:
The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets
Synonyms:
extend; go; lead; pass; run
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):
be (occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere)
Verb group:
range; run (change or be different within limits)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
come (extend or reach)
radiate; ray (extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center)
go deep; go far (extend in importance or range)
underrun (run or pass below)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 25
Meaning:
Use up a period of time in a specific way
Example:
how are you spending your summer vacation?
Synonyms:
pass; spend
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):
soldier (serve as a soldier in the military)
slum (spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive)
weekend (spend the weekend)
holiday; vacation (spend or take a vacation)
do; serve (spend time in prison or in a labor camp)
get through; while away (spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time)
sojourn (spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily)
overwinter; winter (spend the winter)
summer (spend the summer)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
As the moments passed the yelps grew closer and louder.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took some time for all to get in, and Beth found it very hard to pass the lions.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The creature has not passed ten minutes.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had regained my normal state of health, but no new allusion was made to the subject over which I brooded.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Anne could not have supposed it possible that her first evening in Camden Place could have passed so well!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A plan had occurred to me for passing the night, which I was going to carry into execution.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Half an hour passed, an hour; and nothing happened.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A shadow passed over the gaunt face of the explorer.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Doctor,” said I, “I passed my word.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
About a week has passed, and I am now finishing this statement under the influence of the last of the old powders.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
