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
Piastri briefly took the lead at Turn Three, only for Norris to repass at the next corner.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025
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
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
In the white-walled room Where the white bed waits Stand banks of meaningless flowers; In the rain-swept street Are a ghost-like row of cabs; And along the corridor-dusk Phantasmal feet repass.
From Open Water by Arthur Stringer
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
This individual, on departing from its earthly house, repasses the dark vale of forgetfulness, and awakes in the spirit world.
From Key to the Science of Theology by Parley P. Pratt
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
As he passes and repasses me, I try to read his countenance.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
Verstappen, who had been repassed by Sainz for the lead on lap nine, tried the same tactic as in Austin.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2024
Leclerc repassed Alonso into the same corner on the final lap but his attempt to reclaim fastest lap from Verstappen failed by 0.6secs.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 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
Half a lap before the end of the race, Cunningham repassed Venzke.
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
The rollers operate in sets, and successive crackings are obtained by passing and repassing, if necessary, the grain through these rollers, set at different distances apart.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
All the bridges are now open, the barricades are in most cases being blown up, and people are passing and repassing freely for the first time since the day following the memorable bombardment.
From The Invasion by William Le Queux
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