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pass over

verb

  1. tr, adverb to take no notice of; disregard

    they passed me over in the last round of promotions

  2. intr, preposition to disregard (something bad or embarrassing)

    we shall pass over your former faults

“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

The sun is setting as we pass over the open mines of the tar sands.

The Pentagon disregarded the order and sent two huge planes to pass over a group of tiny uninhabited islands south-west of Japan.

Seafood “is seldom well cooked” and milk puddings are “the kind of thing that one would prefer to pass over in silence.”

Pluto in your sign will see a near-full Moon pass over it like a magnifying lens, amping its transformative power.

The insolent tone of him was like having one's face slapped, and it didn't pass over Lyn's head by any means.

Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.

Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given him: and let seven times pass over him.

And the pass over the mountain ridge that would take them across the state line.

Then, why pass over the gleam of infernal joy that lights his face after the whole is over?

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