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passed off

passed off is the simple past and past participle of pass off.

Meaning of pass off

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To happen.
    • The millennium passed off without any disasters.
  2. (transitive) To give something (to someone).
    • 2015. Off the Rim. Sonya Spreen Bates.
      He turned and passed it off to number 23, who dribbled a couple of times and passed it to number 61.
  3. To abate, to cease gradually.
    • I have had a few aches and pains lately and a little fever, but that's nothing; it will pass off.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 55”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

Questions about passed off

What is passed off the simple past and past participle of?
Passed off is the simple past and past participle of pass off.

Words near passed off in the dictionary

  1. passed judgment
  2. passed master
  3. passed masters
  4. passed motion
  5. passed muster
  6. passed off
  7. passed off as
  8. passed on
  9. passed one's word
  10. passed oneself off as
  11. passed out

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