verb
Meaning 1
To happen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- The millennium passed off without any disasters.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
pass off
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verb
Meaning 2
To give something (to someone).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To abate, to cease gradually.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
expel (gases or odors)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: emit, breathe
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: exhaust, discharge, expel, eject, release
Narrower terms: burp, bubble, belch, eruct, force out, exhale, give forth, emanate, radiate
verb
Meaning 5
come to pass
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- What is happening?
- The meeting took place off without an incidence
- Nothing occurred that seemed important
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: happen, hap, go on, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: break, recrudesce, develop, arise, come up, result, intervene, transpire, give, operate, supervene, proceed, go, come, fall, anticipate, recur, repeat, go off, come off, go over, come around, roll around, happen, materialize, materialise, befall, bechance, betide, concur, coincide, backfire, backlash, recoil, chance, shine, strike, turn out, synchronize, synchronise, contemporize, contemporise
verb
Meaning 6
disappear gradually
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The pain eventually passed off
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: evanesce, fade, blow over, fleet, pass
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: disappear, vanish, go away
verb
Meaning 7
disregard
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She passed off the insult
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignore
verb
Meaning 8
cause to be circulated and accepted in a false character or identity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She passed the glass off as diamonds
- He passed himself off as a secret agent
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pass, make pass
verb
Meaning 9
be accepted as something or somebody in a false character or identity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She passed off as a Russian agent
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: look, appear, seem
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: отшумявам (otšumjavam) — to happen
- Finnish: kulua — to happen
- Finnish: mennä — to happen
- Portuguese: transitar — to happen
- Portuguese: suceder — to happen
- Swedish: avlöpa — to happen
- Finnish: ojentaa — to give something
- Finnish: luovuttaa — to give something
- Portuguese: esclarecer — to abate, to cease
- Russian: проходи́ть (proxodítʹ) — to abate, to cease