Pass Off

Definition: Pass Off

Pass Off

Verb

1. Be accepted as something or somebody in a false character or identity: "She passed off as a Russian agent".

2. Disregard; "She passed off the insult".

3. 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".

4. Disappear gradually; as of emotions, for example; "The pain eventually passed off".

5. Come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important".

6. Expel, as of gases and odors.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Pass Off

Eventuality

Verb: happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off, comeabout, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off; (be past).

Falsehood

Dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.

The Past

Verb: be past; Adjective: have expired; Adjective:, have run its course, have had its day; pass; pass by, go by, pass away, go away, pass off, go off; lapse, blow over.

Crosswords: Pass Off

What I use to able to pass off as a bad summer could now potentially turn into a bad life. (Kicking and Screaming; writing credit: Noah Baumbach; Oliver Berkman)

You can pass off two dates without a kiss as being old fashioned - you go three and you're a homo. (40 Days and 40 Nights; writing credit: Rob Perez)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A NASA plane making atmospheric readings makes a low pass off the bow of the RONALD H. BROWN during NAURU99. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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Expressions using "pass off": pass off as ♦ pass off with ♦ pass off with a joke ♦ To pass off. Additional references.

Albanian

pranohem (be admitted, go down, pass), ik (begone, blast off, clear off, depart, escape, exit, fly away, get along, get away, get out, give the guy to, go, go away, go off, go out, hence, leave, make away, make off, make one's bow, make oneself scarce, move away, pass, push off, retire, run away, run off, shoot through, take away, take off). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تفرق (break up, dissipation, disunion, divide, part, parting, separate, split up, straggle, strewing, thin). (various references)

Bulgarian 

изчезвам (abscond, clear out, disappear, dissipate, evanesce, evanish, fall away, go, melt away, mosey, pass, pass away, shrink away, sweep away, tail, vanish, waste, wear out, whirl away, work off). (various references)

Czech

minout (Miss, overpass, pass). (various references)

French

se passer (come to pass, pan out), se dissiper, se dérouler (pan, pan out, pass). (various references)

German

vorbeigehen (call in, drop across, drop around, drop by, drop in, go by, go past, go round, overlook, pass, pass by, passing, stop by, to pass by), vorübergehen (blow over, go by, go past, pass, pass by), vonstatten gehen (take place), durchbeigehen, ablaufen (be up, comb, drain away, drain off, dry off, execute, expire, go off, lapse, pass, run, run away, run out, rundown, scour, unwind, walk off, walk over, wear down, wear out, wind down). (various references)

Greek 

εξελίσσομαι (evolve). (various references)

Hungarian

lebonyolódik, eltûnik (disappear, vanish). (various references)

Italian

passare (be passed, be taken for, call at, cross, elapse, get through, give, go beyond, go by, go through, hand, hand on, happen, help, lapse, pass, put, put through, roll by, roll on, run, see out, slip, spend, stop by, strain, switch, take place, to pass, transfer), svolgersi (go). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

触れ込む (to announce, to herald, to pass off for, to pose as, to pretend to be). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふれ�"む (to announce, to herald, to pass off for, to pose as, to pretend to be). (various references)

Pig Latin

asspay offay

Portuguese

suceder (arrive, befall, betide, chance, come about, cut in, ensue, eventuate, get along, happen, intervene, occur, succeed, transpire), diminuir (abridge, assuage, commute, cut down, dampen, decline, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, dwarf, dwindle, extenuate, fall, impair, lessen, lower, mince, minify, rebate, reduce, relax, retrench, shorten, shrink, sink, wear down, whittle), abrandar (appease, attemper, calm down, deaden, decelerate, dilute, diminish, ease, extenuate, fall, flatten, mellow, mitigate, moderate, modify, mutate, quiet, reduce, relax, relent, relieve, season, slacken, slake, soothe, unbend, unbrace, voice). (various references)

Romanian

prezenta fals, trece (bequeath, blow over, call, call on, cease, clear away, cross, die, diminish, disappear, elapse, enter, flow, Ford, get in, get under, go, go by, go on, insert, jot down, lapse, lapse away, pass, pass away, pass by, pass on, pop, reeve, register, roll, sail, sift, slip away, slip by, transmit, traverse, wear), se termina (be up, close, come out, finish, go out, pass, perish, peter out, rest, spend, terminate), se desfãşura (be on, deploy, evolve, expand, go off, go on, stream, unfold, unreel, unroll), se da drept (personate), ocoli (avoid, cheat, circumambulate, double upon, elide, enclose, eschew, fly, Parry, pass by, ramble, round, shun, side step, wander), evita (avoid, balk, baulk, berth, by pass, clear, dodge, elide, elude, escape, eschew, evade, finesse, fly, forbear, keep from, Parry, put off, save, shun, spare), decurge (devolve, flow, go off, issue), abate atenţia de la. (various references)

Russian 

пройти (go off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pustiti u opticaj (issue), proturiti (spread), predstaviti (image, introduce, picture, present, typify), izdati (betray, bring out, give away, hand out, issue, lay out, let, publish, sell out). (various references)

Spanish

pasar (blow over, bypass, come, come about, come by, come down, come in, come off, cross, dilute, draw, elapse, enact, ensue, expend, function, gait, get, get across, get by, get over, get through, give, go, go by, go off, go on, go over, go past, go through, goffer, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, happen, kick around, knot, lapse, last, light out, line, live, live through, move, occupy, occur, outdo, overstep, overtake, pass, pass across, pass away, pass by, pass on, pass round, passing, pop in, post, proceed, put across, put down, reach, relay, render, ride by, roll by, run, shift, skip, smuggle, spend, strain, suffer, swallow, take away, throw out, tick away, tick by, to pass, to spend, touch, tough, turn, turn about, turn around, turn over, wear off, wear on, while), hacer pasar (admit, bring in, get across, get through, let in, put through, show in, usher). (various references)

Swedish

pracka på ngn ngt (fob off smth. on smb., foist smth. off on smb.), utge (distribute), slå bort (brush away, knock down, put aside, throw away), lägga sig (abate, couch, drop, go to bed, lie up, subside), gå över (go over, look through, pass over, put across, subside), förlöpa (go off, lose one's head, pass, run away from), avlöpa (end, fall out, turn out). (various references)

Turkish

tavrı takınmak (personate), geçmek (abate, adjourn, be current, be over, be transmitted, be valid, beat, best, better, cap, catch, change to, clear, come down, cross, cut across, devolve, distance, elapse, exceed, Excel, expire, fit in, get through, go, go by, go down, go out, have outgrown smb., interlace, intervene, lapse, leave behind, negotiate, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outgrow, outpace, outrange, outrival, outrun, outstrip, pass, pass away, pass beyond, pass by, pass into, pass on, pass over, pass up, permeate, ride, rub on, run, run out, subside, surpass, top, tower above, track, transmigrate, turn, wear off), geçiştirmek (fudge, Parry, slide over, slight), görmemezlikten gelmek (blink, blink at, close one's eyes to, connive, cut, cut smb. dead, dissemble, give smb. the go-by, look through, overlook, overpass, pretend not to see, turn a blind eye, wink at), diye geçinmek, dinmek (blow out, cease, lay, leave off, let up, pass, quiet down, quieten). (various references)

Ukrainian

видавати себе, зникати (come off, die, die down, disappear, dispel, dissipate, evanish, go out of being, ooze, pass away, pass out, peter out, vanish, walk, wan, wear away), збувати (market, trade off), промайнути (flash, glance, glimpse, pass, shoot along, shoot forth, slip, snick, streak). (various references)

abscedat, abscedentibus. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fossa, psoas, soaps, sofas.

-3 letters: asps, fops, foss, oafs, offs, ossa, pass, saps, soap, sofa, sops, spas.

-4 letters: aff, asp, ass, fas, fop, oaf, off, ops, pas, sap, sop, sos, spa.

-5 letters: as, fa, of, op, os, pa, so.