PASS
noun C2- Used to remember how to use a fire extinguisher: pull the pin, aim at the base (of the fire), squeeze the handle/trigger, sweep from side to side.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- pass along To deliver a message or item to its intended recipient.
- pass around To distribute something through a group by giving several...
- pass away To die.
- pass by To travel past without stopping.
- pass down To hand over, pass through or transfer to a lower level, ...
- pass off To happen.
- pass on To go forward.
- pass out To faint; to become unconscious.
- pass over Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, ...
- pass through To go through, to travel through, to transit or lie acros...
- pass up To refuse (not accept); forgo.
From the library
“’Tis nothing, nothing; it will soon pass away”—and as he said so the old man’s strength failed him, and he fell backwards.
It was a bit of good luck to have their new comrade join the party, for soon after they had begun their journey again they came to a place where the trees and branches grew so thick over the road that the travelers could not pass.
Père Pamphile had seen Dantès pass not ten minutes before; and assured that he was at the Catalans, they sat down under the budding foliage of the planes and sycamores, in the branches of which the birds were singing their welcome to one of the first days of spring.
A young Calf came up, and offered to go before and show him the way by which he could manage to pass.
Other matches
- pass To move or be moved from one place to another. A2
- pass An opening, road, or track, available for passing A2
- pass A password C2
- pass along To deliver a message or item to its intended re...
- pass around To distribute something through a group by givi...
- pass away To die.
- pass by To travel past without stopping.
- pass down To hand over, pass through or transfer to a low...
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