PASSED OUT Synonyms: 12 Similar and Opposite Words

passed out

verb

past tense of pass out

as in fainted

to lose consciousness I passed out from the flu

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Recent Examples of passed out The woman had fallen into a pool and was passed out on a couch covering herself with a pillow, agents said. — Meg Kinnard, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026 The broadly popular bill, which passed out of committee 21-1 in July, was blocked from adoption last month by a lone senator, Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky. — Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2026 In July, Byrne was visiting a friend’s house when the man turned pale and passed out at the table. — Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 There was one of Melissa Gorga’s sprinkle cookies ground into the carpet, and there was Kelsey Swanson, passed out under the piano and drooling on the parquet. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026 The blue, orange and silver belt with Empower Field embroidered on it, is passed out by the coaching staff each week. — Sam Jane, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2026 On the first day of training camp, Burke passed out note cards to every Texans defensive player as their opening meeting began. — Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 After a 2-year-old drowned in a backyard swimming pool in July 2025, Fatehi considered filing felony murder charges against his mother, who had passed out from drinking at the time of the accident. — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026 Flash would rewire a street light to provide power for his turntables and speakers, and local kids—usually girls—passed out fliers and served as impromptu publicity teams. — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

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Szubanski, now 65, immediately fake-fainted and fell to the floor.

— Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2026
The three members invited more than 30 guests and at some point there were approximately more than 600 people outside Maison Estelle, where someone is presumed to have fainted.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of fainted

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What those concerns were remains a mystery, since the museum blacked out that part of the report before releasing it under Britain’s Freedom of Information Act.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Several sections of the death certificate, which contains identities of parents as well as addresses and cause of death, were blacked out.

— Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026

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