repass
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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repasses,
present (3rd person singular)
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repassed,
past participle, past
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repassing
present participle
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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repasssimple
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repassessimple
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have repassedperfect
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has repassedperfect
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am repassingprogressive
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are repassingprogressive
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is repassingprogressive
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have been repassingperfect progressive
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has been repassingperfect progressive
Past
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repassedsimple
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had repassedperfect
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was repassingprogressive
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were repassingprogressive
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had been repassingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of repass
1425–75; late Middle English repassen < Middle French repasser, Old French, equivalent to re- re- + passer to pass
Example Sentences
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It’s no secret that police routinely monitor funerals and repass gatherings where they suspect gang members could be present, partly in an effort to ward off violence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026
Following the aching prayers of the album’s “Turiya and Ramakrishna,” the opening strings of “Blue Nile” herald respite and repass, a moment to settle and reset.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
After Sebastian Vettel passed Pierre Gasly out of the La Source hairpin, Ocon, right behind them, drafted both as Gasly went to repass Vettel.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2022
We repass under Tower Bridge, picking up a police boat on the way – sniff sniff sussy sussy – but it falls behind: meanwhile Jordan's telling me about this group she's managing called the Ants.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2012
She saw heads pass and repass the open windows, sounds of hammering floated out upon the sweet spring air, rugs were vigorously shaken on the little back porch.
From Black-Eyed Susan by Ethel Calvert Phillips
The Comfort Zone provides discounts and contributes time and cooking skills to nonprofits, schools and homeless shelters, and is a frequent attendee at repasses, a post-funeral reception for friends and family of the recently deceased.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
The four parts of Joyce's novel reflect Italian Philosopher Giovanni Battista Vice's theory that history eternally passes and repasses through four phases: theocratic, aristocratic, democratic, chaotic.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wind sighs over it, bending the tall reeds with mournful rustle, and the wild bird passes and repasses with plaintive cry over the rushes which form his summer home.
From The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America by William Francis Butler
That street is entirely out of Nadaud's way, and yet he passes and repasses there five or six times a day.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 by William Chambers
Every evening, she passes and repasses over it, strengthening it with fresh threads.
From The Life of the Spider by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Leclerc repassed Norris on lap eight - the third lap after a restart from an early safety car period caused by the Ricciardo-Sainz collision.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2022
Leclerc repassed Verstappen around the outside into Turn Four, cutting across Verstappen as he edged ahead, but remained under threat.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2022
At 76, he has repassed the California bar exam — on his third try — and won a judgment in the State Bar Court of California to have his license reinstated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
Instead, John Rankin's committee unanimously recommended that the bill be repassed.
From Time Magazine Archive
I repassed, in my memory, my whole life; my quiet happiness while residing with my family in Geneva, the death of my mother, and my departure for Ingolstadt.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
This repassing, or ripasso, is intended to add weight and density to the wine.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2020
Big bombers were passing and repassing in the sky.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the legislature rose without repassing the bill, allowed it to expire.
From Time Magazine Archive
They heard and even saw some of the rough men passing and repassing the place of their concealment.
From The Corner House Girls on Palm Island by Thelma Gooch
At this time a peasant was continually passing and repassing between Villa Seca and Madrid, bringing us cargoes of Testaments on a borrico.
From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
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