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How to sign: pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
"She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully";
See also: die down, die out, die off, die out, die off, die back, die down
Similiar / Same: die, decease, perish, pass away, expire, exit, go
Categories: change state, turn
Within this category: buy it, drown, fall, kick the bucket, predecease, starve, succumb, suffocate
How to sign: transmit information
"Please communicate this message to all employees";
Similiar / Same: communicate, put across, pass on
Categories: communicate, convey, transmit
Within this category: acknowledge, carry, get across, message, message, plant, relay, render, request, reveal, send a message
How to sign: eliminate from the body
"Pass a kidney stone";
Similiar / Same: excrete, egest, eliminate
Categories: discharge, eject, expel, release
Within this category: evacuate, exude, make, stool, sweat, urinate, vomit
How to sign: go across or through
"We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind";
See also: pass through, cut across, cross, pass across, pass over, skip, get over, traverse, skip over, transit, cut through, pass over, pass over, get across, track, cover, jump
Similiar / Same: go across, go through
Categories: go, locomote, move, travel
Within this category: break through, crash, cut, cycle, fumble, infiltrate, lock, make, muscle, negociate, run, squeak by, transgress, transit, transit, traverse
How to sign: come to pass
"What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important";
Similiar / Same: happen, hap, occur, come about, take place, go on, pass off, fall out
Within this category: anticipate, arise, befall, break, break, chance, come, come around, concur, develop, fall, fall, give, go off, happen, happen, intervene, operate, proceed, recur, supervene, synchronize, transpire, turn out
How to sign: pass (time) in a specific way
"How are you spending your summer vacation?";
Similiar / Same: spend
Within this category: christmas, lead, misspend, piddle, put in, serve, sojourn, soldier, summer, sunday, vacation, weekend, while away, winter
How to sign: (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
"the pass was fumbled";
Categories: throw
Within this category: centering
How to sign: grant authorization or clearance for
"Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography";
Similiar / Same: authorize, authorise, clear
Categories: allow, countenance, let, permit
Within this category: approbate, approve, certificate, commission, declare, license, validate
How to sign: pass by
"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";
Similiar / Same: travel by, pass by, go past, go by, surpass
Categories: go, locomote, move, travel
Within this category: fly by, run by, skirt, zip by
How to sign: make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
"They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people's spend their free time";
Similiar / Same: legislate
How to sign: the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
"we got through the pass before it started to snow";
Similiar / Same: mountain pass, notch
Categories: location
Within this category: Brenner Pass, col, Cumberland Gap, defile, Donner Pass, Khyber Pass, saddleback
How to sign: pass by
"three years elapsed";
Similiar / Same: elapse, slip by, glide by, go by, slide by, slip away, go along, lapse
Categories: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress
Within this category: fly
