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pass away
Idioms and Phrases
Also, pass on or over . Die, as in He passed away last week , or After Grandma passes on we'll sell the land , or I hear he's about to pass over . All these terms are euphemisms for dying, although the verb pass alone as well as pass away have been used in the sense of 鈥減ass out of existence, die鈥 since the 1300s. The two variants鈥攁dding on [c. 1800] and over [c. 1900]鈥攁llude to moving to some other-worldly realm.Example Sentences
The first South American pontiff passed away on Monday aged 88, marking the end of a 12-year pontificate.
"My client and very dear friend, Philip Lowrie, the beloved actor renowned for his role as Dennis Tanner on Coronation Street, passed away yesterday," he said.
"It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia," her family said in a statement, confirming her death by suicide.
Chanel said it had been difficult to share the information about how James had passed away but that the family "talked about what we can do".
Next year is going to be 20 years since he passed away.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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