Word Finder - passing

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To change place.

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To change in state or status

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To move through time.

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To be accepted.

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

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To do or be better.

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To take heed.

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• take heed
• take notice

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Death, dying; the end of something.

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The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.

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The act of approving a bill etc.

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The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.

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A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.

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The ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group or category different from their own.

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That passes away; ephemeral.

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Pre-eminent, excellent, extreme.

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Vague, cursory.

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Going past.

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passing cars

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Surpassingly, greatly.

Aside from the infrequent sound of a passing car on the avenue, only the murmur of unseen waves lapping at the sand broke the stillness.

I became more frustrated with each passing minute.

Dust drifted down the road from a passing car.

The pain increased until Jule was near passing out.

Her mind was open to him, and he watched the thoughts passing through.

I remembered passing a hall phone just off the living room.

Keep your fingers crossed it was a local and not one of the tourists passing through.

From all sides came shouts of command, and from the left came smartly dressed cavalrymen on good horses, passing the prisoners at a trot.

After grace, they all started passing food.

I remembered passing through the small city on ski trips to Vermont during my college years.

Let's just pray it's a passing romance.

Until the attack was defended and defeated, Christmas mornings, autumn leaves, spring flowers and summer picnics were no more than passing dreams.

Upon passing the first, she realized they weren't men at all.

The competition included both men and women, and all were having a great time dousing the watchers—and even the paraders passing in the opposite direction—with water guns.

Although he was close to passing out from lack of air, Connor rasped, "Got it."

In truth, the raw information funneled to us was transmitted as received after passing through our office.

Until that moment, she hadn't realized how much she missed passing away her nights playing her games!

That, and given the fact she was in the wrong line when they were passing out brains makes me think we're missing something.

Maybe there were just too many deaths that winter to make news of one insignificant passing.

He instinctively ducked his head but the two were paying no heed to a passing biker as they sped south.

It seemed loud, overwhelming, and she realized she was still close to passing out.

During the life of a plant there is a continuous stream of water passing through it which enters by the root-hairs in the soil and after passing along the stem is given off from the 'stomata of the leaves into the open air above ground.

And with every passing year, more people have visited more places.

Only some carts and carriages were passing by.

He glanced at the dirty innyard in the middle of which soldiers were watering their lean horses at the pump while carts were passing out of the gate.

While the troops, dividing into two parts when passing around the Kremlin, were thronging the Moskva and the Stone bridges, a great many soldiers, taking advantage of the stoppage and congestion, turned back from the bridges and slipped stealthily and silently past the church of Vasili the Beatified and under the Borovitski gate, back up the hill to the Red Square where some instinct told them they could easily take things not belonging to them.

She ran across the street, turned down a side street to the left, and, passing three houses, turned into a yard on the right.

What for a long while specially surprised and delighted him were the women, young and healthy, without a dozen officers making up to each of them; women, too, who were pleased and flattered that a passing officer should joke with them.

He'd been moving steadily downhill since before he traveled west to his mother's final days and had not improved since her passing.

I'd known him for a few years, even if it was only in passing.

I only ask this of you, my dearest Joshua; that you not tell my family how I lived, and that you mourn not my passing.

I guess there was death—but not scary death—only inevitable, the-time-has-come kind of passing.

She swung by him, oblivious that she was rubbing her ample chest against him in the passing.

It might have even blown in the open window from a passing car.

Dean glanced down in the light of a passing street lamp.

Cynthia Byrne looked worse with each passing hour and just before their flight was called, excused herself and went to the ladies' room.

There in the blur of a passing auto and mirrored in descending waves of rain was the huddled figure of Cynthia Byrne stumbling across the parking lot toward the road and the beach beyond.

With each passing day the possibility that Jeffrey Byrne's corpse might not be found became more real­istic.

Saturday was one of those days with weather so perfect as to remember weeks after its passing.

He covered one ear to mute the passing traffic.

Dean followed on the run, passing him and reaching the door that was already closed.

The passing of Josh was painful enough to everyone as it was.

Those ahead of him grew more restless with the passing time, eerie quiet, and stifling heat.

She realized his interest in her wasn't likely to be passing, not if she snared his curiosity.

The first rise in the lower Senegal is due to the rains in the source region of the Faleme, the flood water passing down that stream more quickly than down the Bafing owing to its shorter course.

Both passed through phases of faith, but while even Positivism did not cool George Eliot's innate religious fervour, with George Sand religion was a passing experience, no deeper than her republicanism and less lasting than her socialism, and she lived and died a gentle savage.

The experiment is, in fact, much improved by passing the primary light through a coloured glass.

Passing into the service of Uruguay, he was sent to Corrientes with a small flotilla to oppose Rosas's forces, but was overtaken by Admiral Brown, against whose fleet he fought for three days.

This passing fancy was succeeded by a serious attachment, the object of which was the famous "Cynthia."

Turris Libisonis was also connected with Othoca by a road along the west coast, passing through Tharros, Cornus and Bosa; this road went on to Tibula 2 (Capo della Testa) at the north extremity of the island and so by the coast to Olbia.