pass off en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(intransitive) To happen.
The millennium passed off without any disasters.
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(transitive) To give something (to someone).
2015. Off the Rim. Sonya Spreen Bates. He turned and passed it off to number 23, who dribbled a couple of times and passed it to number 61.
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To abate, to cease gradually.
I know, too, that ever since he lost his leg last voyage by that accursed whale, he’s been a kind of moody—desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all pass off.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 16”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:I have had a few aches and pains lately and a little fever, but that's nothing; it will pass off.
1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 55”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| passing off | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| passes off | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| passed off | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| passed off | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
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Translations (10)
pt transitar (to happen) · bg отшумявам (to happen) · fi mennä (to happen) · sv avlöpa (to happen) · fi ojentaa (to give something) · ru проходи́ть (to abate, to cease) · pt suceder (to happen) · pt esclarecer (to abate, to cease) · fi kulua (to happen) · fi luovuttaa (to give something)