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passes off

passes off is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 passes off

What is passes off the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Passes off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pass off.

Words near passes off in the dictionary

  1. passes gas
  2. passes in one's checks
  3. passes judgment
  4. passes motion
  5. passes muster
  6. passes off
  7. passes off as
  8. passes on
  9. passes one's word
  10. passes oneself off as
  11. passes out

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