pass off
Verb
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Verb
pass off
- (intransitive) To happen.
- The millennium passed off without any disasters.
- (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.
- 2015. Off the Rim ↗. Sonya Spreen Bates.
- (transitive, reflexive) To misrepresent something.
- He tried to pass off the imitation Rolex as genuine.
- To abate, to cease gradually.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 55
- I have had a few aches and pains lately and a little fever, but that's nothing; it will pass off.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16
- I know, too, that ever since he lost his leg last voyage by that accursed whale, he’s been a kind of moody—desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all pass off.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 55
- French: faire passer
- Portuguese: passar
- Portuguese: esclarecer
- Russian: проходи́ть
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