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Tornay had been passed up by Estermann for a promotion and could not contain his rage.

Potential rivals—Mitch Daniels, Haley Barbour, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump—have passed up the race.

Haley Barbour passed up the race in part at his wife's urging.

A chair covered with red silk, borne on the shoulders of sixteen chair-men, passed up to the temple.

They passed up a long avenue of trees leading to her home, and a few seconds later the car stood at the door.

The woman had passed up the steps into the big hall beyond the swinging glass doors.

I had listened for some sound from Howel and Evan, but since the footsteps passed up the glen I had heard none until this moment.

But we passed up it and stopped, for on the carpeted mattresses before the throne lay Craney, all alone.

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On this page you'll find 945 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pass up, such as: cease, forgo, quit, refrain, renounce, and shun.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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