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pass out

verb

  1. informal.
    intr to become unconscious; faint
  2. intr (esp of an officer cadet) to qualify for a military commission; complete a course of training satisfactorily

    General Smith passed out from Sandhurst in 1933

  3. tr to distribute
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

There was real joy on his face doling out the cigars and giving some to his wife to pass out from the box.

I could not breathe.... When I would pass out, they would shake me and begin again.

The father had a plastic bag in each hand, containing two of the turkeys he had come to pass out to people in the neighborhood.

Mercifully, as we pass out of Manhattan and into Brooklyn, the crowd diminishes.

As his parents looked on, he denounced the reporters in attendance and proceeded to pass out.

In the center of the roof, a small opening was left for the smoke from the lodge fire to pass out.

Hyde opened the glass-doors of the room that we might pass out that way, and stepped over the threshold with us.

Koyala started, then shrugged her shoulders indifferently and flung the door open for them to pass out.

The highest idea of the Hindu, as of the Buddhist, is to pass out into a sort of painless existence of nothingness.

Through open lips allow the breath to pass out, but with extreme slowness.

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