passed

[ past, pahst ]

/ pæst, pɑst /

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adjective

having completed the act of passing.

having received a passing grade on an examination or test or successfully completed a school course, year, or program of study.

Finance. noting a dividend not paid at the usual dividend date.

U.S. Navy. having successfully completed an examination for promotion, and awaiting a vacancy in the next grade: a passed chief engineer.

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Origin of passed

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at pass, -ed²

OTHER WORDS FROM passed

un·passed, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH passed

passed , past, paste

Words nearby passed

Passchendaele, passcode, pass degree, passe, passé composé, passed, passed ball, passed pawn, passel, passement, passementerie

How to use passed in a sentence

The CDA was passed not in the name of censorship but in the name of protecting children from stumbling across sexual material.
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His wife passed away and they had kids, and he wanted to focus on being a dad so he just stopped to raise his kids.
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As the months passed and she began to cast the film, I became increasingly excited.
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During his trek, Brinsley twice passed within a block of a police stationhouse and he almost certainly saw cops along the way.
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These are eight of the most interesting laws passed in the second session of the 113th Congress.
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It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
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Before Ripperda could unclasp his lips to reply, the stranger had opened the door, and passed through it like a gliding shadow.
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After we had passed over this desert, we found several garisons to defend the caravans from the violence of the Tartars.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)|Daniel Defoe
Nevertheless the evening and the night passed away without incident.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton