PASS ACROSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pass across mean? 

• PASS ACROSS (verb)
  The verb PASS ACROSS has 1 sense:

1. make a passage or journey from one place to another

  Familiarity information: PASS ACROSS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASS ACROSS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a passage or journey from one place to another

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

move through; pass across; pass over; pass through; transit

Context example:

Some travelers pass through the desert

Hypernyms (to "pass across" is one way to...):

pass (go across or through)

Verb group:

transit (cause or enable to pass through)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass across"):

cut (pass through or across)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

He seldom spoke to Laurie, but he looked at him often, and a shadow would pass across his face, as if regretting his own lost youth, as he watched the young man in his prime.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)