Repass
[,ri:'pɑ:s]
Definition
(v. t.) To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.
(v. i.) To pass or go back; to move back; as, troops passing and repassing before our eyes.
Typed by Ellie
Definition
v.t. to pass again: to travel back.—v.i. to pass or move back.—n. Repass′age the process of passing a second coat of glue as a finish over unburnished surfaces.
Typist: Ralph
Examples
- He sends his myrmidons to come over the fence and pass and repass. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Eligible single gentlemen pass and repass--but there is no invitation for to inquire within or without. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The nurses, sauntering on with their charges, would pass and repass her, and wonder in whispers what she could find to look at so long, day after day. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The townspeople who, in their passing and repassing, saw her there, regarded her as the Bank Dragon keeping watch over the treasures of the mine. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The rollers operate in sets, and successive crackings are obtained by passing and repassing, if necessary, the grain through these rollers, set at different distances apart. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Old Barley was growling and swearing when we repassed his door, with no appearance of having ceased or of meaning to cease. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Ere long they repassed, and again looked. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The giddy throng passed and repassed before my eyes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He was more decently born and brought up than the cattledrovers who passed and repassed him in his wanderings; but they merely nodded to him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Nor, how I passed and repassed the gate many times before I could make up my mind to ring. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In silence we stood together in the darkness and watched the hurrying figures who passed and repassed in front of us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The door not being opened after several minutes, Mrs. Sparsit passed it and repassed it, saw nothing, looked in, and found it empty. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- On our way back we repassed the theatre. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Typist: Ronald