pass out
(intr) informal to become unconscious; faint
(intr) British (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
(tr) to distribute
Words Nearby pass out
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How to use pass out in a sentence
There was real joy on his face doling out the cigars and giving some to his wife to pass out from the box.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind | Brin-Jonathan Butler | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI could not breathe.... When I would pass out, they would shake me and begin again.
The Luxury Homes That Torture and Your Tax Dollars Built | Michael Daly | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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.
Leaky Ceilings, Catcalls, and Uncaged Pythons: 4 Hours on NYC’s Worst Subway | Kevin Zawacki | August 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs his parents looked on, he denounced the reporters in attendance and proceeded to pass out.
Doug Kenney: The Odd Comic Genius Behind ‘Animal House’ and National Lampoon | Robert Sam Anson | March 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
In the center of the roof, a small opening was left for the smoke from the lodge fire to pass out.
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children | Mabel PowersHyde opened the glass-doors of the room that we might pass out that way, and stepped over the threshold with us.
Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series | Mrs. Henry WoodKoyala started, then shrugged her shoulders indifferently and flung the door open for them to pass out.
The Argus Pheasant | John Charles BeechamThe highest idea of the Hindu, as of the Buddhist, is to pass out into a sort of painless existence of nothingness.
Round the Wonderful World | G. E. MittonThrough open lips allow the breath to pass out, but with extreme slowness.
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking | Wesley Mills
Other Idioms and Phrases with pass out
Distribute, as in He passed out the papers. [Early 1900s]
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