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Pass out
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- 1 To faint; to become unconscious. intransitive
"I pass out at the sight of blood."
- 2 pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain wordnet
- 3 To fall asleep irrespective of wilful action, as a result of the consumption of alcohol or other drugs or another form of physiological exhaustion. slang
- 4 lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example wordnet
- 5 To distribute. transitive
"Near-synonyms: hand out, give out"
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- 6 give to several people wordnet
- 7 To graduate, usually marked by a ceremony at the end of training. usually
"He wasn't allowed to finish his training to go to France; but was sent to England on a Physical Training Course and passed out First Class."
- 8 To become proficient in a particular job or task. broadly
""It took me about a month to pass out on this box," he adds. "It's easy to be daunted by all the levers and bell codes and Absolute Block, but it's all the usual rules of anywhere else. You can't just come up here from the street though, and I thought I'd never be able to work this SB [signal box], but you just get on with it until it becomes second nature.""
- 9 To graduate from university. India
"He passed out of the Madras University in 1990."
- 10 To end (a round) by having passes as the first four bids. transitive
- 11 Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, out.
"“You speak of terms,” she said. “These are mine. Stand aside and let me pass.” […] “So you accede to my terms?” she said. “I am to pass out?”"
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