Word Finder - passed

definition

To change place.

definition

To change in state or status

definition

To move through time.

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To be accepted.

definition

In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.

definition

To do or be better.

definition

To take heed.

synonyms

• take heed
• take notice

definition

That has passed beyond a certain point (chiefly in set collocations).

definition

That has passed a given qualification or examination; qualified.

The holiday weekend passed pleasantly.

The years passed and almost nothing changed.

The morning passed in a pleasant way and soon it was time to leave.

His mother was very ill and she recently passed away.

I passed the phone to Molly who'd just arrived.

A full week passed before we had our answer.

Dad had passed on his curly blond hair to Nick and Lisa.

She gripped the armrest as he passed two cars at a time.

Not even a year had passed since the stabbing, but he had been doing well.

As she passed a neighbor boy, he waved at her, his two missing front teeth displayed in a sweet smile.

A few moments passed before he told me to go ahead.

Three weeks passed in this way.

Lisa sat down and accepted the bowl full of scrambled eggs Sarah passed to her.

I passed out again but gradually, the pain in my left side and my throat brought me to a state of half-wakefulness.

As April slipped into May and the last threat of frost passed, she began planting them in the garden.

I passed the golf course, as green as an Irish post card and envied the couple strolling down the fairway.

A motor home passed by, with California plates, only the open road of the entire country ahead of them.

As they watched, three Indians rode around a bend in the gully and passed below them.

If he had passed Dulce over, it was because she wasn't what he wanted.

Nearly two weeks had passed since the killing.

If she had asked about the building when we passed it, I might have figured she had never seen it, but she pretended she didn't notice.

I reached for the door, but my hand passed through it.

I was familiar with the story of Troy before I read it in the original, and consequently I had little difficulty in making the Greek words surrender their treasures after I had passed the borderland of grammar.

While this was taking place in Petersburg the French had already passed Smolensk and were drawing nearer and nearer to Moscow.

God has sent you! exclaimed deeply moved voices as Rostov passed through the anteroom.

Less than a week later she passed another milestone.

His mouth twisted into what might have passed for a smile.

After weeks of tense waiting to see if she passed, she finally reached her goal.

We almost passed up the case, thinking it was yet another teenager leaving home on her own.

A wave of guilt passed over me like fog on a beach party; guilt like a pants-down lover when the husband comes home.

Carmen rushed to him, but found that he was either asleep or passed out.

Quinn was required to pick up extra classes when an older professor passed away suddenly.

Dean stuck his head in the room as he passed.

The drinks were passed out and they sat.

I passed out for a few minutes, I guess, and then I thought I was alone so I started crawling toward the door.

Another agonizing hour passed before a doctor finally came out to talk to them.

Ryland and Donnie passed me on the way to Grand Junction.

He hated all this emotional nonsense, and had it been anyone but Sarah, he would have made a hasty retreat and stayed away until the waterworks passed.

He lay passed out on the bed, two empty bottles on the nightstand and one on the floor.

They rejoined the group as Sarah passed out dessert and coffee.

When the island passed to Savoy, in 1720, the mines passed to the state.

It thence passed farther north to the Burdekin, ascending to the source of that river, and turned westward across a table-land, from which there was an easy descent to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Having crossed a table-land of sandstone which divides these streams from those running to the western shores of Arnheim Land, Mr Stuart, in the month of July, passed down what is called the Adelaide river of north Australia.

He passed the Reynolds range and Lake Amadeus in that direction, but was compelled to turn south, where he found a tract of well-watered grassy land.

Of the several attempts to cross Western Australia, even Major Warburton's expedition, the most successful, had failed in the important particular of determining the nature of the country through which it passed.

Agriculture everywhere expanded, the mining industry revived, and, if it had not been for the low prices of staple products, the visible effects of the crisis would have passed away within a very few years.

During the year 1896 Enabling Acts were passed by New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia, and delegates were elected by popular vote in all the colonies named except Western Australia, where the delegates were chosen by parliament.

The Enabling Bill passed the various stages in the parliament of that colony, and the question was then adopted by referendum.

This report led to the passing of a number of acts which, proving ineffectual, were followed by the Factories and Shops Act of 1896, passed by the ministry of Mr (afterwards Sir Alexander) Peacock.

A similar system was introduced into South Australia by an act passed in 1900 amending the Factory Act of 1894, which was the first legislation of the sort passed in that state.