passed, past, pass

passed, past, pass
Passed is the past tense of the verb pass; past is the past participle: "The car passed us at 60 miles an hour." "Your troubles are now past." Pass is not only a verb; it is also a noun. It appears in hackneyed phrases that are idiomatically sound but informal or slangy: "make a pass at" ("make a sexually inviting gesture, action, or remark"); "pass out" ("lose consciousness," "faint"); "pass away" and "pass on" (euphemisms for "to die"); "pass the buck" ("refuse responsibility"); "pass off as" ("dispose of, or treat, deceptively"); "come to pass" ("happen," "occur"); "a pretty pass" ("ironic situation"); "pass up" ("reject," "refuse to take advantage of'); and "pass over" ("ignore").

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