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pass out

verb

  1. informal(intr) to become unconscious; faint

  2. (intr) (esp of an officer cadet) to qualify for a military commission; complete a course of training satisfactorily

    General Smith passed out from Sandhurst in 1933

  3. (tr) to distribute

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Distribute, as in He passed out the papers . [Early 1900s]

Also, pass out cold . Faint, as in When she heard the news she passed out cold . [Early 1900s] Also see out cold .

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“I work at our preschool. He came over with the rest of our great Police Department, sounding the sirens, passing out stickers and singing,” Avila said.

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What’s always fascinated me about the ocean is its power and how small I felt in that moment as I was passing out.

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In some videos, participants are seen passing out after being hit.

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Prosecutors said the adults tortured the children, beating them daily, depriving them of food and strangling them to the point of passing out.

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Their response to antisemitism and Nazism is tame: Jewish women of German birth pass out ribbons reading “We Appeal to German Culture and Conscience.”

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