pass away

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.

Example Sentences

Life must have been dark since their mother passed away.

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Its founder and operator, Gary Shireman, passed away last month at the age of 74.

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Death, however, lingers over the album like a dense fog, as Burns grapples with the loss of her father on Christmas Day 2020, and her grandfather, John Burns, who passed away last April.

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Other qualifiers: If your hours are cut and you lose your healthcare, if you get divorced and/or legally separated, or if a covered employee passes away.

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My husband passed away and we continued to have a close relationship, saying that I was a daughter to them, etc.

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Related Words

• die 
• expire 
• perish 
• succumb