pass off
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(verb) disregard; "She passed off the insult" |
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Related Words: brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside |
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(verb) cause to be circulated and accepted in a false character or identity; "She passed the glass off as diamonds"; "He passed himself off as a secret agent" |
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Related Words: make pass, pass |
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(verb) be accepted as something or somebody in a false character or identity: "She passed off as a Russian agent" |
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Related Words: appear, look, seem |
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(verb) expel, as of gases and odors |
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Synonyms: breathe, emit, give off |
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Related Words: belch, bubble, burp, discharge, eject, emanate, eruct, exhale, expel, force out, give forth, radiate, ray, release |
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(verb) come to pass; occur: "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
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Synonyms: come about, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, take place |
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Related Words: arise, bechance, befall, betide, break, chance, coincide, come, come around, come off, come up, concur, contemporize, develop, fall, give, go, go off, go over, happen, materialize, operate, proceed, recur, repeat, roll around, supervene, synchronize, transpire, turn out, work |
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(verb) disappear gradually; as of emotions, for example; "The pain eventually passed off" |
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Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, fleet, pass |
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Related Words: disappear, go away, vanish |
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