pass away

Idioms  

1. Also,. Die, as in He passed away last week, or After Grandma passes on we'll sell the land, or I hear he's about to pass over. All these terms are euphemisms for dying, although the verb pass alone as well as pass away have been used in the sense of “pass out of existence, die” since the 1300s. The two variants—adding on [c. 1800] and over [c. 1900]—allude to moving to some other-worldly realm.

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Example Sentences

Time steals all things as he rides: Honours, glories, states, and schools, Pass away, and nought abides; Till the tomb our carcase hides, And compels this penitence.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

And they spake roughly, saying, "Pass away there, pass away there!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891 by Various

Time steals all things as he rides: Honors, glories, states, and schools, Pass away, and naught abides; Till the tomb our carcass hides, And compels grim penitence.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

Time steals all things as he rides: Honors, glories, states, and schools, Pass away, and naught abides; Till the tomb our carcass hides.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.

Settled in some secret nest, In calm leisure let me rest; And, far off the public stage, Pass away my silent age.

From Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier by Whittier, John Greenleaf

Related Words

• die
• expire
• perish
• succumb