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PASS ACROSS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pass across mean?
• PASS ACROSS (verb)
The verb PASS ACROSS has 1 sense:
1. make a passage or journey from one place to another
Familiarity information: PASS ACROSS used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make a passage or journey from one place to another
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
move through; pass across; pass over; pass through; transit
Context example:
Some travelers pass through the desert
Hypernyms (to "pass across" is one way to...):
pass (go across or through)
Verb group:
transit (cause or enable to pass through)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass across"):
cut (pass through or across)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples
He seldom spoke to Laurie, but he looked at him often, and a shadow would pass across his face, as if regretting his own lost youth, as he watched the young man in his prime.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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