pass
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Synonyms for pass
go by or past
end
be successful in
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- be successful in
- qualify (in)
- succeed (in)
- graduate (in)
- get through
- do
- pass muster (in)
- come up to scratch (in)
- gain a pass in
approve
predicament
make a pass at someone
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- make advances to
- proposition
- hit on
- come on to
- make a play for
- make an approach to
- make sexual overtures to
pass as or for something or someone
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- be mistaken for
- be taken for
- impersonate
- be accepted as
- be regarded as
pass away or on
pass off: take place
pass someone over
pass something or someone off as something or someone
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- misrepresent as
- palm something or someone off as
- falsely represent as
- disguise something or someone as
- dress something or someone up as
pass something out
pass something up
pass yourself off as someone
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- pretend to be
- fake being
- feign being
- make a pretence of being
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
Synonyms for pass
to make or go on a journey
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to be greater or better than
to make known
to cease living
to represent oneself in a given character or as other than what one is
pass away: to cease living
pass off: to offer or put into circulation (an inferior or spurious item)
pass over: to pretend not to see
a decisive point
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Synonyms for pass
(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
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(military) a written leave of absence
(American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
any authorization to pass or go somewhere
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a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
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a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
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one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
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a permit to enter or leave a military installation
a complimentary ticket
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(sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
success in satisfying a test or requirement
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go across or through
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move past
pass by
place into the hands or custody of
stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope
travel past
come to pass
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- recrudesce
- develop
- break
- come up
- arise
- result
- intervene
- transpire
- give
- operate
- supervene
- proceed
- go
- come
- fall
- anticipate
- recur
- repeat
- come off
- go over
- go off
- roll around
- come around
- materialise
- materialize
- happen
- bechance
- befall
- betide
- coincide
- concur
- backfire
- backlash
- recoil
- chance
- shine
- strike
- turn out
- contemporise
- contemporize
- synchronise
- synchronize
go unchallenged
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pass time in a specific way
pass over, across, or through
transmit information
go successfully through a test or a selection process
be superior or better than some standard
accept or judge as acceptable
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Antonyms
transfer to another
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throw (a ball) to another player
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be inherited by
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grant authorization or clearance for
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
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eliminate from the body
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- perspire
- sudate
- sweat
- exudate
- exude
- ooze out
- transude
- ooze
- make water
- micturate
- pass water
- pee
- pee-pee
- relieve oneself
- spend a penny
- take a leak
- wee
- wee-wee
- urinate
- piddle
- puddle
- make
- void
- empty
- evacuate
- ca-ca
- crap
- defecate
- take a crap
- stool
- barf
- be sick
- puke
- regorge
- retch
- sick
- throw up
- upchuck
- vomit
- vomit up
- disgorge
- cat
- spue
- spew
- regurgitate
- chuck
- honk
- purge
- cast
- eject
- expel
- release
- exhaust
- discharge
of advancing the ball by throwing it
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