passaging

Verb (1)

passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)

1. To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.
   • He passaged the virus through a series of goats.
2. (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
   • They passaged to America in 1902.

Verb (2)

passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)

1. (intransitive) To execute a passage movement.
   • After a spring or two, the horse passaged and reared, and lighting on a flat slab of rock which cropped up in the middle of the road, slipped sideways and fell with a loud crash […]1915, Cunninghame Graham, Hope, page 18

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