Dictionary Entry
To ignore, overlook, or fail to notice something or someone; or to go past something.
In a Sentence
“The teacher decided to pass over the student's late assignment without penalty.”
Origin
From Old French "passer" (to step, walk) and Old English "ofer" (over).
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “pass over”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →desire to serve me on any future occasion, and many more fine words that
I pass over, not out of modesty, but for another reason. So you see I
have made my fortune, like Sir Fr. Wronghead." The tutor of Sir James