pass away

VERB
  1. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
    The children perished in the fire
    She died from cancer
    The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
    The patient went peacefully
  2. go out of existence
    She hoped that the problem would eventually pass away
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How To Use pass away In A Sentence

  • And while we scattered pioneers and experimenters piece together our scattered efforts into a coherent scheme, while we become more and more clearly conscious of our common purpose, year by year the old order and those who have anchylosed to the old order, die and pass away, and the unhampered children of the new time grow up about us. Mankind in the Making
  • She hoped that the problem would eventually pass away
  • Away with all these whining, pining Carpers, who are constantly talking & prating that the married estate brings nothing but care and sorrow with it; here, to the contrary, they may see how all minds & intentions are knit together, to consume and pass away these daies with the most superabounding pleasures. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
  • It could be fifty or sixty years from now when we both pass away.
  • I have always a piece of cold beef and a mince-pye upon the table, and am wonderfully pleased to see my tenants pass away a whole evening in playing their innocent tricks, and smutting one another. The Coverley Papers
  • ‘Clearly,’ he wrote, ‘all such pieces of foolery will pass away as quickly as they have appeared.’
  • For poor Michael Richards, a man most well-known for his ability to enter a room in extravagant fashion as Kramer on “Seinfeld,” stand-up comedy is a place to go to watch your career slowly pass away; or, you know, a place to go to feed your inner-racist. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • Pass away " is a euphemism for " die ".
  • Three things soon pass away; the echo of the woods, the rainbow, and woman's beauty. 
  • Not one iota, not one dot of the law will pass away until all is fulfilled. Christianity Today
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