pass away
verb- To die. · After a long battle with cancer, the professor passed away yesterday.· Her great grandmother passed away yesterday.
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In the very middle of the court was a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it: they looked so good, that it made Alice quite hungry to look at them—“I wish they’d get the trial done,” she thought, “and hand round the refreshments!” But there seemed to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about her, to pass away the time.
With no greater events than these in the Longbourn family, and otherwise diversified by little beyond the walks to Meryton, sometimes dirty and sometimes cold, did January and February pass away.
Four weeks were to pass away before her uncle and aunt’s arrival.
But they did pass away, and Mr.
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