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PASS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Success in satisfying a test or requirement

Example:

he got a pass in introductory chemistry

Synonyms:

pass; passing; qualifying

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):

success (an attainment that is successful)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team

Example:

the pass was fumbled

Synonyms:

flip; pass; toss

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):

throw (the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist))

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):

centering; snap ((American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls

Example:

he worked the pitcher for a base on balls

Synonyms:

base on balls; pass; walk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):

accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A flight or run by an aircraft over a target

Example:

the plane turned to make a second pass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):

flight; flying (an instance of traveling by air)

Sense 5

Meaning:

(American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate

Example:

the coach sent in a passing play on third and long

Synonyms:

pass; passing; passing game; passing play

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):

football play ((American football) a play by the offensive team)

Domain category:

American football; American football game (a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):

aerial; forward pass (a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer)

lateral; lateral pass (a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer)

spot pass (a pass to a designated spot on the field; the receiver should arrive at that spot the same time the ball does)

Derivation:

pass (throw (a ball) to another player)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A usually brief attempt

Example:

I gave it a whirl

Synonyms:

crack; fling; go; offer; pass; whirl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):

attempt; effort; endeavor; endeavour; try (earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something)

Sense 7

Meaning:

A complimentary ticket

Example:

the star got passes for his family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):

ticket (a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment))

Sense 8

Meaning:

A permit to enter or leave a military installation

Example:

he had to show his pass in order to get out

Synonyms:

liberty chit; pass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):

licence; license; permit (a legal document giving official permission to do something)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Sense 9

Meaning:

A document indicating permission to do something without restrictions

Example:

the media representatives had special passes

Synonyms:

laissez passer; pass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):

permission (approval to do something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):

boarding card; boarding pass (a pass that allows you to board a ship or plane)

hall pass (written permission from a teacher for a student to be out the classroom and in the halls of the school)

ticket-of-leave (a permit formerly given to convicts allowing them to leave prison under specific restrictions)

Sense 10

Meaning:

Any authorization to pass or go somewhere

Example:

the pass to visit had a strict time limit

Synonyms:

pass; passport

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):

permission (approval to do something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):

safe-conduct; safeguard (a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war)

Derivation:

pass (grant authorization or clearance for)

Sense 11

Meaning:

An automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent

Example:

he had a bye in the first round

Synonyms:

bye; pass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):

conceding; concession; yielding (the act of conceding or yielding)

Derivation:

pass (accept or judge as acceptable)

Sense 12

Meaning:

One complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)

Example:

it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):

cycle; oscillation (a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon)

Domain category:

computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)

Sense 13

Meaning:

A difficult juncture

Example:

matters came to a head yesterday

Synonyms:

head; pass; straits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):

juncture; occasion (an event that occurs at a critical time)

Sense 14

Meaning:

The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks

Example:

we got through the pass before it started to snow

Synonyms:

mountain pass; notch; pass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):

location (a point or extent in space)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):

col; gap (a pass between mountain peaks)

defile; gorge (a narrow pass (especially one between mountains))

saddle; saddleback (a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle))

Instance hyponyms:

Brenner Pass (an Alpine mountain pass connecting Innsbruck in Austria with Bolzano in Italy that has long been a route for trade and for invasions)

Cumberland Gap (a pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west)

Donner Pass (a mountain pass in northeastern California near Lake Tahoe; site where in 1844 some members of an emigrant party survived by eating those who had died)

Khyber Pass (a mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India)

Holonyms ("pass" is a part of...):

chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)

Sense 15

Meaning:

A bad or difficult situation or state of affairs

Synonyms:

pass; strait; straits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):

situation (a complex or critical or unusual difficulty)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pass"):

desperate straits; dire straits (a state of extreme distress)

Sense 16

Meaning:

(military) a written leave of absence

Example:

he had a pass for three days

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("pass" is a kind of...):

leave; leave of absence (the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of advancing the ball by throwing it

Example:

a pass play

Synonyms:

pass; passing

Classified under:

Adjectives

Domain category:

football; football game (any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eliminate from the body

Example:

Pass a kidney stone

Synonyms:

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

discharge; eject; exhaust; expel; release (eliminate (a substance))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

perspire; sudate; sweat (excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin)

exudate; exude; ooze; ooze out; transude (release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities)

make; make water; micturate; pass water; pee; pee-pee; piddle; piss; puddle; relieve oneself; spend a penny; take a leak; urinate; wee; wee-wee (eliminate urine)

urinate (pass after the manner of urine)

empty; evacuate; void (excrete or discharge from the body)

ca-ca; crap; defecate; make; shit; stool; take a crap; take a shit (have a bowel movement)

barf; be sick; cast; cat; chuck; disgorge; honk; puke; purge; regorge; regurgitate; retch; sick; spew; spue; throw up; upchuck; vomit; vomit up (eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

passing (a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Come to pass

Example:

Nothing occurred that seemed important

Synonyms:

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

break; develop; recrudesce (happen)

arise; come up (result or issue)

result (come about or follow as a consequence)

intervene (occur between other event or between certain points of time)

transpire (come about, happen, or occur)

give (occur)

supervene (take place as an additional or unexpected development)

go; proceed (follow a certain course)

come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)

fall (occur at a specified time or place)

anticipate (be a forerunner of or occur earlier than)

develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)

recur; repeat (happen or occur again)

come off; go off; go over (happen in a particular manner)

come around; roll around (happen regularly)

happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)

bechance; befall; happen (happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance)

bechance; befall; betide (become of; happen to)

coincide; concur (happen simultaneously)

backfire; backlash; recoil (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect)

chance (be the case by chance)

break (happen or take place)

fall; shine; strike (touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly)

turn out (prove to be in the result or end)

contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (happen at the same time)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 3

Meaning:

Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Example:

The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102

Synonyms:

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)

die (suffer or face the pain of death)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)

asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)

buy it; pip out (be killed or die)

drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)

predecease (die before; die earlier than)

famish; starve (die of food deprivation)

fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)

succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

passing (euphemistic expressions for death)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Disappear gradually

Example:

The pain eventually passed off

Synonyms:

blow over; evanesce; fade; fleet; pass; pass off

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

passing (the end of something)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Transmit information

Example:

pass along the good news

Synonyms:

communicate; pass; pass along; pass on; put across

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

communicate; convey; transmit (transfer to another)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

implant; plant (put firmly in the mind)

send a message (give or constitute a signal, not necessarily verbally)

relay (pass along)

get across; put over (communicate successfully)

ask for; bespeak; call for; quest; request (express the need or desire for)

telecommunicate (communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail)

acknowledge; receipt (report the receipt of)

carry (pass on a communication)

deliver; render; return (pass down)

message (send as a message)

message (send a message to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 6

Meaning:

Grant authorization or clearance for

Example:

The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography

Synonyms:

authorise; authorize; clear; pass

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

approbate (approve or sanction officially)

certificate (authorize by certificate)

approve; O.K.; okay; sanction (give sanction to)

declare (authorize payments of)

certify; licence; license (authorize officially)

commission (charge with a task)

formalise; formalize; validate (declare or make legally valid)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Derivation:

pass (any authorization to pass or go somewhere)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Pass over, across, or through

Example:

He drew her hair through his fingers

Synonyms:

draw; guide; pass; run

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Verb group:

draw; string; thread (thread on or as if on a string)

lead; run (cause something to pass or lead somewhere)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

rub (move over something with pressure)

thread (pass through or into)

thread (pass a thread through)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Also:

pass around (cause to become widely known)

pass over (rub with a circular motion)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Pass into a specified state or condition

Example:

He sank into nirvana

Synonyms:

lapse; pass; sink

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

move (go or proceed from one point to another)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

passage (the act of passing from one state or place to the next)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Travel past

Example:

The sports car passed all the trucks

Synonyms:

overhaul; overtake; pass

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

get by (pass or move in front of)

clear; top (pass by, over, or under without making contact)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

These cars won't pass

Derivation:

passage (the motion of one object relative to another)

passing (going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it)

passing (the motion of one object relative to another)

Sense 10

Meaning:

Go across or through

Example:

A terrible thought went through his mind

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

break through; crack (pass through (a barrier))

squeak by; squeak through (escape)

transit (pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place))

cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse (travel across or pass over)

infiltrate; pass through (pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict)

run (cover by running; run a certain distance)

move through; pass across; pass over; pass through; transit (make a passage or journey from one place to another)

cut (pass directly and often in haste)

crash (move violently as through a barrier)

muscle (make one's way by force)

overstep; transgress; trespass (pass beyond (limits or boundaries))

negociate; negotiate (succeed in passing through, around, or over)

lock (pass by means through a lock in a waterway)

make; work (proceed along a path)

cycle (pass through a cycle)

blunder; fumble (make one's way clumsily or blindly)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Also:

pass over (bypass)

pass over (travel across or pass over)

pass over (make a passage or journey from one place to another)

Sense 11

Meaning:

Move past

Example:

One line of soldiers surpassed the other

Synonyms:

go by; go past; pass; pass by; surpass; travel by

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

skirt (pass around or about; move along the border)

run by (pass by while running)

fly by (pass by while flying)

fly by; whisk by; zip by (move by very quickly)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

These cars won't pass

Derivation:

passer (a person who passes by casually or by chance)

Sense 12

Meaning:

Cause to pass

Example:

She passed around the plates

Synonyms:

make pass; pass

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Cause:

pass (go across or through)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

cycle (cause to go through a recurring sequence)

pass off (cause to be circulated and accepted in a false character or identity)

pass through (cause to move through)

lead; run (cause something to pass or lead somewhere)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 13

Meaning:

Pass by

Example:

three years elapsed

Synonyms:

elapse; glide by; go along; go by; lapse; pass; slide by; slip away; slip by

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

fell; fly; vanish (pass away rapidly)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 14

Meaning:

Transfer to another; of rights or property

Example:

Our house passed under his official control

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 15

Meaning:

Be inherited by

Example:

The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead

Synonyms:

devolve; fall; pass; return

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

change hands; change owners (be transferred to another owner)

Verb group:

accrue; fall (come into the possession of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

fall; light (fall to somebody by assignment or lot)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Sense 16

Meaning:

Place into the hands or custody of

Example:

He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers

Synonyms:

give; hand; pass; pass on; reach; turn over

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

transfer (cause to change ownership)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

give (leave with; give temporarily)

slip; sneak (pass on stealthily)

deal (give (a specific card) to a player)

deliver; fork out; fork over; fork up; hand over; render; turn in (to surrender someone or something to another)

free; give up; release; relinquish; resign (part with a possession or right)

commit; confide; entrust; intrust; trust (confer a trust upon)

entrust; leave (put into the care or protection of someone)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence examples:

They pass the food to the people

They pass the people the food

Also:

pass on (transmit information)

pass on (give to or transfer possession of)

pass on (transmit (knowledge or skills))

pass on (refer to another person for decision or judgment)

Derivation:

passage (the act of passing something to another person)

Sense 17

Meaning:

Throw (a ball) to another player

Example:

Smith passed

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

throw (propel through the air)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

pass ((American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate)

passer ((football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass)

passing ((American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate)

Sense 18

Meaning:

Allow to go without comment or censure

Example:

the insult passed as if unnoticed

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

allow; let; permit (make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 19

Meaning:

Make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation

Example:

We cannot legislate how people spend their free time

Synonyms:

legislate; pass

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

enact; ordain (order by virtue of superior authority; decree)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

passage (the passing of a law by a legislative body)

Sense 20

Meaning:

Go unchallenged; be approved

Example:

The bill cleared the House

Synonyms:

clear; pass

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win (attain success or reach a desired goal)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

clear (pass an inspection or receive authorization)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 21

Meaning:

Accept or judge as acceptable

Example:

The teacher passed the student although he was weak

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

evaluate; judge; pass judgment (form a critical opinion of)

Cause:

make it; pass (go successfully through a test or a selection process)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

fail (judge unacceptable)

Derivation:

pass (an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent)

passing (success in satisfying a test or requirement)

Sense 22

Meaning:

Go successfully through a test or a selection process

Example:

She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now

Synonyms:

make it; pass

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win (attain success or reach a desired goal)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

ace; breeze through; nail; pass with flying colors; sail through; sweep through (succeed at easily)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

fail (fail to get a passing grade)

Derivation:

passer (a student who passes an examination)

passing (success in satisfying a test or requirement)

Sense 23

Meaning:

Be superior or better than some standard

Example:

She topped her performance of last year

Synonyms:

exceed; go past; overstep; pass; top; transcend

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

excel; stand out; surpass (distinguish oneself)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 24

Meaning:

Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point

Example:

The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets

Synonyms:

extend; go; lead; pass; run

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "pass" is one way to...):

be (occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere)

Verb group:

range; run (change or be different within limits)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

come (extend or reach)

radiate; ray (extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center)

go deep; go far (extend in importance or range)

underrun (run or pass below)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Sense 25

Meaning:

Use up a period of time in a specific way

Example:

how are you spending your summer vacation?

Synonyms:

pass; spend

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass"):

soldier (serve as a soldier in the military)

slum (spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive)

weekend (spend the weekend)

holiday; vacation (spend or take a vacation)

do; serve (spend time in prison or in a labor camp)

get through; while away (spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time)

sojourn (spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily)

overwinter; winter (spend the winter)

summer (spend the summer)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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 Context examples: 

As the moments passed the yelps grew closer and louder.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took some time for all to get in, and Beth found it very hard to pass the lions.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The creature has not passed ten minutes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had regained my normal state of health, but no new allusion was made to the subject over which I brooded.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Anne could not have supposed it possible that her first evening in Camden Place could have passed so well!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A plan had occurred to me for passing the night, which I was going to carry into execution.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Half an hour passed, an hour; and nothing happened.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A shadow passed over the gaunt face of the explorer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Doctor,” said I, “I passed my word.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

About a week has passed, and I am now finishing this statement under the influence of the last of the old powders.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

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