pass – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to pass for sth
Participle: passed for sth
Gerund: passing for sth

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	pass for sth
we	Let's pass for sth
you	pass for sth

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to stop living; to become dead

auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be no more, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy it, buy the farm, cark it, cash in, cash in one's chips, check out, conk out, croak, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, decease, depart, disincarnate, draw one's last breath, exit, expire, flatline, forfare, give one's all, give up the ghost, go for a burton, go gentle into that good night, go the way of all flesh, go the way of the dinosaurs, go the way of the dodo, go to glory, go to one's reward, hand in one's dinner pail, hop the twig, join the choir invisible, keel over, kick the bucket, knock off, lose one's life, lose the number of one's mess, meet one's doom, meet one's end, meet one's maker, pass away, pass in one's marble, pass on, pass over, pass the river, pay the debt of nature, peg out, perish, pop off, pop one's clogs, shuffle off this mortal coil, sleep with one's fathers, slip away, snuff it, succumb, take a dirt nap, die, turn up one's toes, yield up the ghost

to move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere

accord, assign, award, bestow, confer, contribute, deliver, do, donate, give, give away, grant, hand, hand in, hand over, minister, present, provide, turn in

to be better than

best, better, dwarf, eclipse, exceed, excel, outclass, outdo, outmatch, outperform, outrival, outrun, outshadow, outshine, outstrip, outvie, overshadow, put to shame, surpass, top, transcend, trump, upstage

to allow something unpleasant to exist or occur

abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, bear, bide, brook, dree, endure, forbear, go along with, live with, pocket, pouch, put up with, stand, stick, stomach, suffer, swallow, take sitting down, tolerate, thole, undergang, undergo

to exist; to be a reality

bechance, befall, belimp, betide, betime, chance, come about, come to pass, crop up, evene, eventuate, go on, hap, happen, hold, occur, take place, transpire

(of time) to pass or move by

elapse, go by, pass by, roll on

to deliberately not pay attention to

disregard, dissemble, ignore, misheed, misregard, neglect, pass by, put aside, shrug off, take no notice of, tune out, unheed, unmind

proceed

go, progress, move, advance

disregard

omit, ignore, neglect, skim

exceed

excel, surpass, transcend

Antonyms

proceed

discontinue, stop, stay, stand

disregard

regard, attention, notice, note

exceed

lag, fail, linger

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1275 (trans.) "to go by (something)," also "to cross over," from O.Fr. passer, from V.L. *passare "to step, walk, pass," from L. passus "step, pace" (see pace (1)). Intrans. sense of "to go on, to move forward, make one's way" is attested from 1297. Fig. sense of "to experience, undergo" (as in pass the time) is first recorded 1390. The meaning "to be thought to be something one is not" (esp. in racial sense) is from 1935, from pass oneself off (as), first found 1809. The general verb sense of "to be accepted as equivalent" is from 1596. Sense of "to go through an examination successfully" is from 1429. Meaning "decline to do something" is attested from 1869, originally in cards (euchre). In football, hockey, soccer, etc., the meaning "to transfer the ball or puck to another player" is from c.1865. Colloquial make a pass "offer an amorous advance" first recorded 1928, perhaps from a sporting sense. Pass up "decline, refuse" is attested from 1896. Pass the buck is from 1865, said to be poker slang reference to the buck horn-handled knife that was passed around to signify whose turn it was to deal. Pass the hat "seek contributions" is from 1762. Pass-fail as a grading method is attested from 1959.
2. From Middle English passen, from Old French passer (“to step, walk, pass”), from Vulgar Latin *passāre (“step, walk, pass”), derived from Latin passus (“a step”), from Proto-Italic *pat-s-tus, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread, stretch out”). Cognate with Old English fæþm (“armful, fathom”). More at fathom.
3. Displaced native Old English genġan. See: Middle English 'passen', Old French 'passer'.

Verbs referencing "pass"

Esperanto pasi, German, old spelling passieren, Ido pasar, Spanish pasar, Welsh pasio, Scots Gaelic pasaig, Chinese, Mandarin 派司, Zulu phasa.

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