pass\ over

pass\ over
• pass over
• pass by
v
To give no attention to; not notice; ignore,

I can pass over the disorderliness of the troops, but their disobedience is serious.

In choosing men to be given a salary raise, the foreman passed Mr. Hart by.

She was unattractive, the kind of a girl that everybody would pass by.


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