Definition of passed

"passed" in the verb sense

1. pass

go across or through

"We passed the point where the police car had parked"

"A terrible thought went through his mind"

2. travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by, pass

move past

"A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"

"He passed his professor in the hall"

"One line of soldiers surpassed the other"

3. legislate, pass

make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation

"They passed the amendment"

"We cannot legislate how people spend their free time"

4. elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along

pass by

"three years elapsed"

5. pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give

place into the hands or custody of

"hand me the spoon, please"

"Turn the files over to me, please"

"He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"

6. run, go, pass, lead, extend

stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point

"Service runs all the way to Cranbury"

"His knowledge doesn't go very far"

"My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"

"The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"

7. pass, overtake, overhaul

travel past

"The sports car passed all the trucks"

8. happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place

come to pass

"What is happening?"

"The meeting took place off without an incidence"

"Nothing occurred that seemed important"

9. pass, clear

go unchallenged be approved

"The bill cleared the House"

10. spend, pass

use up a period of time in a specific way

"how are you spending your summer vacation?"

11. guide, run, draw, pass

pass over, across, or through

"He ran his eyes over her body"

"She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"

"He drew her hair through his fingers"

12. communicate, pass on, pass, pass along, put across

transmit information

"Please communicate this message to all employees"

"pass along the good news"

13. evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass

disappear gradually

"The pain eventually passed off"

14. pass, make it

go successfully through a test or a selection process

"She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now"

15. exceed, transcend, overstep, pass, go past, top

be superior or better than some standard

"She exceeded our expectations"

"She topped her performance of last year"

16. pass

accept or judge as acceptable

"The teacher passed the student although he was weak"

17. pass

allow to go without comment or censure

"the insult passed as if unnoticed"

18. pass

transfer to another of rights or property

"Our house passed under his official control"

19. sink, pass, lapse

pass into a specified state or condition

"He sank into nirvana"

20. pass

throw (a ball) to another player

"Smith passed"

21. fall, return, pass, devolve

be inherited by

"The estate fell to my sister"

"The land returned to the family"

"The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"

22. pass, make pass

cause to pass

"She passed around the plates"

23. authorize, authorise, pass, clear

grant authorization or clearance for

"Clear the manuscript for publication"

"The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography"

24. die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it

pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

"She died from cancer"

"The children perished in the fire"

"The patient went peacefully"

"The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

25. excrete, egest, eliminate, pass

eliminate from the body

"Pass a kidney stone"

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Quotations for passed

The breathing miracle into silence passed! [ Gerald Massey ]

The darkest day
Lives till tomorrow will have passed away. [ Cowper ]

The rose will bloom when the storm is passed. [ Robert Browning ]

Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who
Before us passed the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the road
Which to discover we must travel too. [ Omar Khayyam ]

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade
Of that which once was great is passed away. [ Wordsworth ]

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;
Another race, the following spring supplies;
They fall successive, and successive rise:
So generations in their course decay;
So flourish these, when those have passed away. [ Homer, Pope's Iliad ]

Thus, day by day, and month by month, we passed;
It pleased the Lord to take my spouse at last.
I tore my gown, I soiled my locks with dust.
And beat my breasts - as wretched widows must:
Before my face my handkerchief I spread,
To hide the flood of tears I did - not shed. [ Pope ]

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. [ Publius Syrus ]

Joys too exquisite to last, and yet more exquisite when passed. [ Montgomery ]

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed. [ Byron ]

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away. [ Willmott ]

Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might;
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and deeds alone suffice. [ Whittier ]

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless. [ Seneca ]

When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed by, as a loss of power. [ Emerson ]

Through suffering and sorrow thou hast passed, to show us what a woman true can be. [ Lowell ]

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows. [ Coleridge ]

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. [ Joubert ]

When the intoxication of love has passed, we laugh at the perfections it had discovered. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

I know not any season of life that is passed more agreeably than that of virtuous old age. [ Cicero ]

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms: everything is more beautiful when they have passed. [ Madame Necker ]

I am young; I have passed but the half of the road of life, and, already weary, I turn and look back! [ A. de Musset ]

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. [ Coleridge ]

Experience to most men is like the stern-lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. [ Coleridge ]

Neither can the wave which has passed by be again recalled, nor can the hour which has passed ever return. [ Ovid ]

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed. [ Sir W. Temple ]

A woman, when she has passed forty, becomes an illegible scrawl; only an old woman is capable of divining old women. [ Balzac ]

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over. [ Landor ]

Life is rather a state of embryo, - a preparation for life. A man is not completely born until he has passed through death. [ Franklin ]

Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment. [ Johnson ]

When women have passed thirty, the first thing they forget is their age; when they have attained forty, they have entirely lost the remembrance of it. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change. [ N. P. Willis ]

I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Since not only judgments have their awards, but mercies their commissions, snatch not at every favour, nor think thyself passed by if they fall upon thy neighbour. [ Sir T. Browne ]

Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature. [ Sears ]

I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inviting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution. [ F. W. Robertson ]

One is more honest in youth, and to the age of thirty years, than when one has passed it. It is only after that age that one's illusions are dispelled. Until then, one resembles the dog that defends the dinner of his master against other dogs: after this period, he takes his share of it with the others. [ Chamfort ]

It has become a settled principle that nothing which is good and true can be destroyed by persecution, but that the effect ultimately is to establish more firmly, and to spread more widely, that which it was designed to overthrow. It has long since passed into a proverb that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. [ Albert Barnes ]

It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. [ Addison ]

The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends. I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellowman with Him from whose hand it came. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking. I do not know just when I began to smoke, I only know that it was in my father's lifetime, and that I was discreet. He passed from this life early in 1847, when I was a shade past eleven; ever since then I have smoked publicly. As an example to others, and - not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. It is a good rule. I mean, for me; but some of you know quite well that it wouldn't answer for everybody that's trying to get to be seventy. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

passed in Scrabble®

The word passed is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters passed:

PASSED
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SPADES
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word passed

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In passed

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passed in Words With Friends™

The word passed is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters passed:

PASSED
(60)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word passed

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(54)
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Words within the letters of passed

2 letter words in passed (4 words)

3 letter words in passed (11 words)

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6 letter words in passed (Anagrams) (2 words)

passed + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence passed

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Words with passed in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving passed

Shorter words in passed

as ass pass

pa pass

Longer words containing passed

bypassed

compassed encompassed

repassed

surpassed unsurpassed

trespassed