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pass as

pass as verb: to be able to convince others that one is something contrary to fact; to look sufficiently like something or someone that one can purport to be it.

Verb

pass as (third-person singular simple present passes as, present participle passing as, simple past and past participle passed as)

  1. To be able to convince others that one is something contrary to fact; to look sufficiently like something or someone that one can purport to be it.

pass as meaning in Malayalam

pass as in Malayalam

be mistaken for, be taken for, be accepted as
തെറ്റിദ്ധരിക്കുക, മറ്റൊരാളെന്നു ധരിക്കുക, മറ്റൊന്നാണെന്നു കരുതുക, തെറ്റായി ധരിക്കുക, മറ്റൊന്നെന്നു കരുതി സ്വീകരിക്കപ്പെടുക

Forms of pass as

third-person singular presentpasses as
present participlepassing as
past participlepassed as
pastpassed as

Questions about pass as

What does pass as mean?
Pass as means to be able to convince others that one is something contrary to fact; to look sufficiently like something or someone that one can purport to be it.
What is pass as in Malayalam?
Pass as in Malayalam is തെറ്റിദ്ധരിക്കുക, മറ്റൊരാളെന്നു ധരിക്കുക, മറ്റൊന്നാണെന്നു കരുതുക. See Pass as meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is pass as?
Pass as is a verb.
What is the past tense of pass as?
The past tense of pass as is passed as.

Words near pass as in the dictionary

  1. pass a wet sponge across the slate
  2. pass a wet sponge over the slate
  3. pass along
  4. pass around
  5. pass around like a blunt
  6. pass as
  7. pass away
  8. pass band
  9. pass bands
  10. pass box
  11. pass boxes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pass as (page history and authors); pass as (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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