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pass out
verb
informal(intr) to become unconscious; faint
(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
(tr) to distribute
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 .
Example Sentences
“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.
What’s always fascinated me about the ocean is its power and how small I felt in that moment as I was passing out.
In some videos, participants are seen passing out after being hit.
Prosecutors said the adults tortured the children, beating them daily, depriving them of food and strangling them to the point of passing out.
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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