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Pass away

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To die. euphemistic, idiomatic

    "After a long battle with cancer, the professor passed away yesterday."

  2. 2
    go out of existence wordnet
  3. 3
    To disappear; to cease to be; to be no more. archaic, literary

    "Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day."

  4. 4
    pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life wordnet
  5. 5
    To spend; to waste. obsolete

    "Lest she pass away the flower of her age."

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