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Definition of Pass out

1. Verb. Pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain.

2. Verb. Give to several people. "The teacher handed out the exams"

3. Verb. Lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example.

Definition of Pass out

1. Verb. (intransitive) To faint; fall asleep ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To distribute, to hand out ¹

3. Verb. (context: of soldiers, police, fire-fighters(,) etc.) To graduate, usually marked by the ceremony at the end of their training. ¹

4. Verb. (bridge transitive) To end (a round) by having passes as the first four bids. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Literary usage of Pass out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"This suggested that within the cells the neutral red existed in the acid or dissociated (RC1) condition which was unable to pass out. ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Roger Meeson, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1841)
"These goods were the property originally of the bankrupts, and there- fore of his assignees; and I can find nothing to make the EASTWOOD, property pass out ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"... and sends back a part, at least, of the light which falls on it, some of these rays pass out again, but, in accordance with the law of conjugate foci, ..."

4. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1890)
"to require all persons y' they permit & suffer the sd Martin Hoof- man to pass out of this Port in the Sloop belonging to Cap' Martin ..."

5. The Adventures of a Blockade Runner by William Watson (1893)
"... of cleaning a vessel's bottom—An extraordinary statement of accounts—No pass out till settled—A blockade on both sides to run—Father Ryan a passenger. ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... for the rays would pass out directly through the parallel glass plate which is formea by the cementing together of the prisms Pi and P». ..."

7. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"Refused permission to depart after 4 PM — Brazilian battery fires one shot as we pass out. CHASING ships without making any captures was getting to be a ..."

8. Iowa Journal of History by State Historical Society of Iowa (1922)
"Mahanna turned arround and says Boys pass out pass out. I will see whether you wont go out on a pass from a commissioned Officer and out the Boys went and ..."

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