Dictionary entry details
• PASS OFF (verb)
Meaning:
Be accepted as something or somebody in a false character or identity
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Context example:
She passed off as a Russian agent
Hypernyms (to "pass off" is one way to...):
appear; look; seem (give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Disregard
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
She passed off the insult
Hypernyms (to "pass off" is one way to...):
brush aside; brush off; discount; dismiss; disregard; ignore; push aside (bar from attention or consideration)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Cause to be circulated and accepted in a false character or identity
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context examples:
She passed the glass off as diamonds / He passed himself off as a secret agent
Hypernyms (to "pass off" is one way to...):
make pass; pass (cause to pass)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Disappear gradually
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
blow over; evanesce; fleet; fade; pass off; pass
Context example:
The pain eventually passed off
Hypernyms (to "pass off" is one way to...):
disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Meaning:
Come to pass
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
come about; take place; occur; hap; happen; go on; pass off; fall out; pass
Context examples:
What is happening? / The meeting took place off without an incidence / Nothing occurred that seemed important
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass off"):
bechance; befall; happen (happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance)
happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)
come around; roll around (happen regularly)
come off; go off; go over (happen in a particular manner)
bechance; befall; betide (become of; happen to)
coincide; concur (happen simultaneously)
backfire; backlash; recoil (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect)
chance (be the case by chance)
break (happen or take place)
fall; shine; strike (touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly)
turn out (prove to be in the result or end)
recur; repeat (happen or occur again)
develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)
break; develop; recrudesce (happen)
arise; come up (result or issue)
intervene (occur between other event or between certain points of time)
transpire (come about, happen, or occur)
give (occur)
operate (happen)
supervene (take place as an additional or unexpected development)
go; proceed (follow a certain course)
come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)
fall (occur at a specified time or place)
anticipate (be a forerunner of or occur earlier than)
contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (happen at the same time)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE
Meaning:
Expel (gases or odors)
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
emit; pass off; breathe
Hypernyms (to "pass off" is one way to...):
discharge; eject; expel; release (eliminate (substances) from the body)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass off"):
belch; bubble; burp; eruct (expel gas from the stomach)
force out (emit or cause to move with force of effort)
emanate; exhale; give forth (give out (breath or an odor))
radiate (send out real or metaphoric rays)
bubble (form, produce, or emit bubbles)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
