passed

Meanings

Verb

• go across or through
  • "We passed the point where the police car had parked"
• move past
  • "A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"
  • "He passed his professor in the hall"
  • "One line of soldiers surpassed the other"
• make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
  • "They passed the amendment"
• pass by
• place into the hands or custody of
• stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
• travel past
  • "The sports car passed all the trucks"
• come to pass
• go unchallenged; be approved
• pass time in a specific way
• pass over, across, or through
• transmit information
• disappear gradually
  • "The pain eventually passed off"
• go successfully through a test or a selection process
  • "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now"
• be superior or better than some standard
• accept or judge as acceptable
  • "The teacher passed the student although he was weak"
• allow to go without comment or censure
  • "the insult passed as if unnoticed"
• transfer to another; of rights or property
  • "Our house passed under his official control"
• pass into a specified state or condition
• throw (a ball) to another player
  • "Smith passed"
• be inherited by
• cause to pass
  • "She passed around the plates"
• grant authorization or clearance for
• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
• eliminate from the body
• simple past and past participle of pass

Adj

• That has passed beyond a certain point (chiefly in set collocations).
• That has passed a given qualification or examination; qualified.

Synonyms

authorise, authorize, blow over, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, clear, come about, communicate, conk, croak, decease, devolve, die, draw, drop dead, egest, elapse, eliminate, evanesce, exceed, excrete, exit, expire, extend, fade, fall, fall out, fleet, give, give-up the ghost, glide by, go, go across, go along, go by, go on, go past, go through, guide, hand, hap, happen, kick the bucket, lapse, lead, legislate, make it, make pass, occur, overhaul, overstep, overtake, pass, pass along, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, perish, pop off, put across, reach, return, run, sink, slide by, slip away, slip by, snuff it, spend, surpass, take place, top, transcend, travel by, turn over

Antonyms

be born, fail