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Verb

pass off ‎(third-person singular simple present passes off, present participle passing off, simple past and past participle passed off)

1. (intransitive) To happen.

   The millennium passed off without any disasters.‎

2. (transitive) To give something (to someone).
   • 2015. Off the Rim. Sonya Spreen Bates.

     He turned and passed it off to number 23, who dribbled a couple of times and passed it to number 61.

3. (transitive) To misrepresent something.

   He tried to pass off the imitation Rolex as genuine.‎

4. To abate, to cease gradually.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 55

     I have had a few aches and pains lately and a little fever, but that's nothing; it will pass off.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16

     I know, too, that ever since he lost his leg last voyage by that accursed whale, he’s been a kind of moody—desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all pass off.

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