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verb ignore, disregard

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verb ignore, disregard

take no notice ofstar

Antonyms for passing over

heed
attend

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death

noun. end of life

noun. leaving out

reservation

migrant /migratory

adj. moving, traveling

noun. something forgotten or excluded

but

prep. indicating an exception

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Word Origin & History

pass c.1275 (trans.) "to go by (something)," also "to cross over," from O.Fr. passer, from V.L. *passare "to step, walk, pass," from L. passus "step, pace" (see pace (1)). Intrans. sense of "to go on, to move forward, make one's way" is attested from c.1300. Fig. sense of "to experience, undergo" (as in pass the time) is first recorded 1390. The meaning "to be thought to be something one is not" (esp. in racial sense) is from 1935, from pass oneself off (as), first found 1809. The general verb sense of "to be accepted as equivalent" is from 1596. Sense of "to go through an examination successfully" ...is from 1429. Meaning "decline to do something" is attested from 1869, originally in cards (euchre). In football, hockey, soccer, etc., the meaning "to transfer the ball or puck to another player" is from c.1865. Colloquial make a pass "offer an amorous advance" first recorded 1928, perhaps from a sporting sense. Pass up "decline, refuse" is attested from 1896. Pass the buck is from 1865, said to be poker slang reference to the buck horn-handled knife that was passed around to signify whose turn it was to deal. Pass the hat "seek contributions" is from 1762. Pass-fail as a grading method is attested from 1959.

Example Sentences for passing over

Its losses had not yet been heavy, as most of the cannon fire was passing over their heads.

A whirlwind of madness seemed to be passing over the region.

There his bones lie to this day, and no man knows when he is passing over them.

My dead body, or what I told him about passing over it, was the revolver that I flourished.