verb
Etymology: Middle English passen away, from passen to pass + away
intransitive verb
1.
a. : to go out of existence : come to an end : perish , vanish
when those conditions have passed away and history returns to normal — W.P.Webb
b. : die
died of a broken heart soon after his mother passed away — David Fairchild
2. archaic : depart
saw the damsel pass away — Edmund Spenser
3. : to slip by : elapse
the evening passed away very fairly — Henry Lapham
transitive verb
1. : to let slip by : spend
pass away the winter
2. archaic : to give away : surrender