WordNet
v. pass by; "A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall"; "One line of soldiers surpassed the other" [syn: travel by, pass by, surpass, go by, pass]
go beyond; "She exceeded our expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year" [syn: exceed, transcend, overstep, pass, top]
Usage examples of "go past".
Another time I heard her voice call out to me quietly, 'Hello, John Lyle,' and I turned just in time to see a hooded figure go past my elbow through a door.
When they move in, probably under cover of that gas attack, punish them as they go past, but mostly fall back on your reserves, regroup, and wait for the signal to counter attack.
They found sign of the raiders, but they didn't go past the river.
I'll have to torch them as we go past, or they might board the cargo ships.
Either way, they'd never expected me to go past it without having a look.
The man with the silver bridle saw the little man go past him slashing furiously at imaginary cobwebs, saw him cannon into the horse of the gaunt man and hurl it and its rider to earth.
He hit his turn signal and waited for a pickup truck to go past, then turned left between yet more trees.
She was willing to stay here, and I told her she would be crazy to let a shot at head of Starfleet medicine go past .