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verb (adverb)

(intr) informal to become unconscious; faint

(intr) British (esp of an officer cadet) to qualify for a military commission; complete a course of training satisfactorilyGeneral Smith passed out from Sandhurst in 1933

(tr) to distribute

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Words nearby pass out

pass muster, pass off, Passo Fundo, pass on, pass one's lips, pass out, Passover, pass pattern, pass point, passport, pass rush

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How to use pass out in a sentence

There was real joy on his face doling out the cigars and giving some to his wife to pass out from the box.
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I could not breathe.... When I would pass out, they would shake me and begin again.
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The father had a plastic bag in each hand, containing two of the turkeys he had come to pass out to people in the neighborhood.
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Mercifully, as we pass out of Manhattan and into Brooklyn, the crowd diminishes.
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As his parents looked on, he denounced the reporters in attendance and proceeded to pass out.
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In the center of the roof, a small opening was left for the smoke from the lodge fire to pass out.
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children|Mabel Powers
Hyde opened the glass-doors of the room that we might pass out that way, and stepped over the threshold with us.
Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series|Mrs. Henry Wood
Koyala started, then shrugged her shoulders indifferently and flung the door open for them to pass out.
The Argus Pheasant|John Charles Beecham
The highest idea of the Hindu, as of the Buddhist, is to pass out into a sort of painless existence of nothingness.
Round the Wonderful World|G. E. Mitton
Through open lips allow the breath to pass out, but with extreme slowness.
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking|Wesley Mills

Other Idioms and Phrases with pass out

pass out

Distribute, as in He passed out the papers. [Early 1900s]

Also, pass out cold. Faint, as in When she heard the news she passed out cold. [Early 1900s] Also see out cold.

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