PASS AWAY

{v.} 1. To slip by; go by; pass. * /We had so much fun that the weekend passed away before we realized it./ * /Forty years had passed away since they had met./ 2. To cease to exist; end; disappear; vanish * /When automobiles became popular, the use of the horse and buggy passed away./ 3. To have your life stop; die. * /He passed away at eighty./ Syn.: PASS ON(3), PASS OUT(3).