pass off

pass off
verb
1. be accepted as something or somebody in a false character or identity (Freq. 1)
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She passed off as a Russian agent

• Hypernyms: ↑look, ↑appear, ↑seem
• Verb Frames:
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Something is ——ing PP

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Somebody ——s PP

2. disregard (Freq. 1)
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She passed off the insult

• Hypernyms:
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

3. cause to be circulated and accepted in a false character or identity
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She passed the glass off as diamonds

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He passed himself off as a secret agent

• Hypernyms: ↑pass, ↑make pass
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody PP

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Somebody ——s something PP

4. come to pass
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What is happening?

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The meeting took place off without an incidence

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Nothing occurred that seemed important

• Syn:
↑happen, ↑hap, ↑go on, ↑occur, ↑pass, ↑fall out, ↑come about, ↑take place
• Derivationally related forms: ↑hap (for: ↑hap), ↑happening (for: ↑happen)
• Hyponyms:
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Something is ——ing PP

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It ——s that CLAUSE

5. expel (gases or odors)
• Syn: ↑emit, ↑breathe
• Derivationally related forms: ↑emission (for: ↑emit)
• Hypernyms: ↑exhaust, ↑discharge, ↑expel, ↑eject, ↑release
• Hyponyms:
↑burp, ↑bubble, ↑belch, ↑eruct, ↑force out, ↑exhale, ↑give forth, ↑emanate, ↑radiate
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

6. disappear gradually
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The pain eventually passed off

• Syn: ↑evanesce, ↑fade, ↑blow over, ↑fleet, ↑pass
• Derivationally related forms: ↑passing (for: ↑pass), ↑evanescent (for: ↑evanesce), ↑evanescence (for: ↑evanesce)
• Hypernyms: ↑disappear, ↑vanish, ↑go away
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Something is ——ing PP

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(of proceedings) happen or be carried through in a specified, usually satisfactory, way

the weekend had passed off entirely without incident

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pass off [phrasal verb]
1 pass (someone or something) off as (someone or something) or pass off (someone or something) as (someone or something) : to cause people to wrongly believe that someone or something is someone or something else

amateurs passing themselves off as professionals

He managed to pass himself off as the son of the famous actor.

She passed the poem off as her own.

They tried to pass it off as an original painting, but I suspected it was a copy.

a cheap piece of glass passed off as a diamond

2 Brit : to happen or take place in a particular way

The event passed off [=went off] with no major incidents.

The evening passed off quietly.

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Main Entry: ↑pass

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ˌpass ˈoff derived
(BrE) (of an event) to take place and be completed in a particular way

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The demonstration passed off peacefully.

Main entry: ↑passderived

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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