Phrase guide

pass through

noun · verb · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A framed, window-like aperture in the interior wall of a house, usually between a kitchen and dining room, through which items (especially food) can be passed. A serving hatch.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To go through, to travel through, to transit or lie across a place or from one place to another.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • We passed through the checkpoint on the road that passes through Freedonia.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: go through, traverse, lustrate

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

To make something move through something else.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The dough is passed through the pasta machine several times.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

To undergo; to experience.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • We all passed through those phases.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

Synonym of infiltrate.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • We passed through enemy lines in the fog.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: infiltrate

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: infiltrate

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pass, go through, go across

7

verb

Meaning 7

make a passage or journey from one place to another

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs;
  • Some travelers pass through the desert

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: transit, move through, pass across, pass over

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pass, go through, go across

Narrower terms: cut

8

verb

Meaning 8

cause to move through

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Pass a chemical through a solution

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pass, make pass

Narrower terms: reeve

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

18 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: шубер (šuber) — aperture
  • Finnish: tarjoiluaukko — aperture
  • Finnish: tarjoiluluukku — aperture
  • Arabic: اِخْتَرَقَ (iḵtaraqa) — to go through
  • Arabic: نَفَذَ (nafaḏa) — to go through
  • Bulgarian: пресичам (presičam) — to go through
  • Chichewa: kupítira — to go through
  • Choctaw: hlopulli — to go through
  • Esperanto: trapasi — to go through
  • French: traverser — to go through
  • Ancient Greek: ἀμείβομαι (ameíbomai) — to go through
  • Italian: trapassare — to go through
  • Latin: peragrō — to go through
  • Spanish: atravesar — to go through
  • Tagalog: dumaan — to go through
  • Bulgarian: прокарвам (prokarvam) — to make something move through something else
  • Choctaw: hlopullichi — to make something move through something else
  • Finnish: mennä läpi — to make something move through something else