Meaning

3 senses
  1. (intransitive)To happen.

    The millennium passed off without any disasters.

  2. (transitive)To give something (to someone).

    2015. Off the Rim. Sonya Spreen Bates. He turned and passed it off to number 23, who dribbled a couple of times and passed it to number 61.

  3. To abate, to cease gradually.

    проходи́тьproxodítʹ

    disappear gradually

Examples

18 sentences
  1. Tom passed himself off as me.

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  2. Don't pass your work off to me.

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  3. He's been passing off my ideas as his.

    ruОн выдавал мои идеи за свои.

    deEr hat meine Ideen als seine ausgegeben!

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  4. Why did you pass yourself off as me?

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  5. The conference passed off well.

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Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to abate, to cease:

Forms

passes off, passing off, passed off, passed off
Base formpass off · to pass off
3rd person singularpasses off
Present participlepassing off
Past simplepassed off
Past participlepassed off

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypass off
he, she, itpasses off

Past simpleLesson

all personspassed off

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave passed off
he, she, ithas passed off

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pass off

Phrasal verbs

13 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

14 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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