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| NOUN: | 1. A decisive point: climacteric, crisis, crossroad (used in plural), exigence, exigency, head, juncture, turning point, zero hour. See DECIDE. 2. A free ticket entitling one to transportation or admission: Informal : comp. Slang : freebie. See ENTER, TRANSACTIONS. | | VERB: | 1. To take place: befall, betide, come, come about, come off, develop, hap, happen, occur, transpire. Idioms: come to pass. See HAPPEN. 2. To cause (a disease) to pass to another or others: carry, communicate, convey, give, spread, transmit. See MOVE. 3. To make known: break, carry, communicate, convey, disclose, get across, impart, report, tell, transmit. See KNOWLEDGE. 4. To accept officially: adopt, affirm, approve, confirm, ratify, sanction. See ACCEPT, LAW. 5. To go across: cross, track, transit, traverse. See MOVE. 6. 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. 7. To come as by lot or inheritance: devolve, fall. See REACH. 8. To move along a particular course: fare, go, journey, proceed, push on, remove, travel, wend. Idioms: make one's way. See MOVE. 9. To move past in time: elapse, go (by), lapse. See TIME. 10. To move toward a termination: go, go away, pass away. See APPROACH, INCREASE, TIME. 11. To convey (something) from one generation to the next. Along or on: bequeath, hand down, hand on, transmit. See GIVE. 12. To make or go on a journey: journey, peregrinate, travel, trek, trip. Idioms: hit the road. See MOVE. 13. To go through (life) in a certain way: lead, live1, pursue. See BE. 14. To be accepted or approved: carry, clear. See ACCEPT. 15. To catch up with and move past: overhaul, overtake. See APPROACH. 16. To cause to be transferred from one to another: convey, hand (over), transmit. See GIVE. 17. To represent oneself in a given character or as other than what one is: attitudinize, impersonate, masquerade, pose, posture. Idioms: pass oneself off as. See HONEST. 18. To use time in a particular way: put in, spend. See TIME. 19. To be greater or better than: best, better1, exceed, excel, outdo, outmatch, outrun, outshine, outstrip, surpass, top, transcend. Informal : beat. Idioms: go beyond, go one better. See BIG. | | PHRASAL VERB: | pass away 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. pass away To move toward a termination: go, go away, pass. See APPROACH, INCREASE, TIME. pass off To offer or put into circulation (an inferior or spurious item): fob off, foist, palm off, put off. See HONEST. pass out To suffer temporary lack of consciousness: black out, faint, keel over, swoon. See AWARENESS. 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.
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