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pass over

verb
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, over. · Could you pass the condiments over, please?· We are now passing over the Gulf of Bothnia.
  2. To bypass or disregard in favour of someone or something else. (transitive)
  3. To bypass (something); to skip (something). (intransitive) · Let's pass over that topic for now.
  4. To make a transit of; to pass through or across (something). (intransitive)
  5. To overlook; not to note or resent. (intransitive) · to pass over an affront
  6. To die and thus progress to the afterlife. (intransitive)
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So he said, “I’m sorry not to do as you wish, but we must pass over your hill whether you like it or not,” and he walked boldly forward.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 137 · B2
And yet if his wife and I talked together or there seemed any sympathy between us, a kind of wave of jealousy would pass over him, and he would be off the handle and saying the wildest things in a moment.
The Valley of Fear, p. 54 · C1
Lawrence, with water on two sides of it, anybody who went out of it or into it had to pass over that hill road and so run the unseen gauntlet of Mrs.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 1 · C1
Do not notice things which those whose interest it is to see them pass over.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 938 · C1

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