Passé

/pɑːs/ · verb

Meaning

To change place..

Definitions by Sense

1. To change place.
2. To change in state or status
3. To move through time.
4. To be accepted.
5. To refrain from doing something.
6. To do or be better.
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed, to have an interest, to care.
8. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.

Example Sentences

Mena[phon]. How now my Lord, what mated and amazd’ To heare the king thus threaten like himſelfe? Coſ[roe]. Ah Menaphon, I paſſe not for his threates, […]

As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.

mountain pass

"Try not the Pass!" the old man said; / "Dark lowers the tempest overhead, / The roaring torrent is deep and wide!" / And loud that clarion voice replied / Excelsior!

Followed two more weeks of marching,—rougher marching this time,—through the core of the lofty mountains that divide India from Central Asia; across the terrible Depsang Plains, seventeen thousand feet up; and over four passes choked with snow; till they came upon a deserted fort, set in the midst of stark space, and knew that here, indeed, was the limit of human habitation. Next day the work of exploration had begun in earnest.

the passes of the Mississippi

[The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him […]

My first pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.

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• passes
• passing
• passed
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• glossary
• pass
• passest
• passedst
• passeth
• -
• passe

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