PASS OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pass out mean? 

• PASS OUT (verb)
  The verb PASS OUT has 3 senses:

1. pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain

2. give to several people

3. lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example

  Familiarity information: PASS OUT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASS OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

conk; faint; pass out; swoon

Hypernyms (to "pass out" is one way to...):

black out; pass out; zonk out (lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give to several people

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

distribute; give out; hand out; pass out

Context example:

The teacher handed out the exams

Hypernyms (to "pass out" is one way to...):

gift; give; present (give as a present; make a gift of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass out"):

apportion; deal; divvy up; portion out; share (give out as one's portion or share)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

black out; pass out; zonk out

Hypernyms (to "pass out" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass out"):

conk; faint; pass out; swoon (pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

I heard the front-door open, and St. John pass out.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These boys saw and heard nothing, so that it is certain that young Saltire did not pass out that way.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you prevaricate or trifle with me, I give you my assurance that the matter will pass out of my hands forever.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was afraid that Thornton would pass out of his life as Perrault and François and the Scotch half-breed had passed out.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

My answer was, to pass out at the gate immediately.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Most kidney stones pass out of the body without help from a doctor.

(Kidney Stones, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

It causes medical problems including: • Making your body temperature so high that you pass out • Severe itching • "Meth mouth" - broken teeth and dry mouth • Thinking and emotional problems

(Methamphetamine, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

They simply seemed to fade into the rays of the moonlight and pass out through the window, for I could see outside the dim, shadowy forms for a moment before they entirely faded away.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

One part was open, and by that I had crept in; but now I covered every crevice by which I might be perceived with stones and wood, yet in such a manner that I might move them on occasion to pass out; all the light I enjoyed came through the sty, and that was sufficient for me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

We were very happy; and that evening, as the last of its race, and destined evermore to close that volume of my life, will never pass out of my memory.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)