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PASS AWAY
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Go out of existence
Example:
She hoped that the problem would eventually pass away
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "pass away" is one way to...):
cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Example:
The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
Synonyms:
buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "pass away" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Verb group:
break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)
die (suffer or face the pain of death)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass away"):
abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)
asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)
buy it; pip out (be killed or die)
drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)
predecease (die before; die earlier than)
famish; starve (die of food deprivation)
fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)
succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
Overall, participants with a weak nose were 46 percent more likely to die by year 10 and 30 percent more apt to pass away by year 13 than people with a good sense of smell, the study found.
(Declining Sense of Smell Linked to Risk of Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The 'queer feeling' did not pass away, but she imagined herself acting the new part of fine lady and so got on pretty well, though the tight dress gave her a side-ache, the train kept getting under her feet, and she was in constant fear lest her earrings should fly off and get lost or broken.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Four weeks were to pass away before her uncle and aunt's arrival.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Dr. and Mrs. Grant would enliven us, and make our evenings pass away with more enjoyment even to my father.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
However, thank God, these occasions grow less frequent as the days go on, and they will in time pass away altogether, I trust.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It was well I had learnt that this elf must return to me—that it belonged to my house down below—or I could not have felt it pass away from under my hand, and seen it vanish behind the dim hedge, without singular regret.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
There was only a comfortable glow that warmed and did him good without putting him into a fever, and he was reluctantly obliged to confess that the boyish passion was slowly subsiding into a more tranquil sentiment, very tender, a little sad and resentful still, but that was sure to pass away in time, leaving a brotherly affection which would last unbroken to the end.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The deep remembrance of the sense I had, of being utterly without hope now; of the shame I felt in my position; of the misery it was to my young heart to believe that day by day what I had learned, and thought, and delighted in, and raised my fancy and my emulation up by, would pass away from me, little by little, never to be brought back any more; cannot be written.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But they did pass away, and Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, with their four children, did at length appear at Longbourn.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It conveyed irresistibly the idea that life—animal life—was not the only thing which could pass away.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
