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Idioms: pass away

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 "pass out of existence, die" since the 1300s. The two variants--adding on [c. 1800] and over [c. 1900]--allude to moving to some other-worldly realm.


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Definition: die
Antonyms: be born, live


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The verb has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
  Synonyms: die, decease, perish, go, exit, expire, pass

Meaning #2: go out of existence


 
 
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