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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ELAPSE, v.i. elaps'. [L. elapsus, from elabor,labor, to slide.]
To slide away; to slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; applied chiefly or wholly to time. [Instead of elapse,the noun, we use lapse.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: pass by; "three years elapsed" [syn: elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along]

Merriam Webster's

I. intransitive verb (elapsed; elapsing) Etymology: Latin elapsus, past participle of elabi, from e- + labi to slip — more at sleep Date: 1644 pass, go by <four years elapsed before he returned> II. noun Date: circa 1677 passage <returned after an elapse of 15 years>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.intr. (of time) pass by. Etymology: L elabor elaps- slip away

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Elapse E*lapse", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Elapsed; p. pr. & vb. n. Elapsing.] [L. elapsus, p. p. of elabi to glide away; e out + labi to fall, slide. See Lapse.] To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time. Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. --Hoole.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(elapses, elapsing, elapsed) When time elapses, it passes. (FORMAL) Forty-eight hours have elapsed since his arrest. VERB: V

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Pass, lapse, glide away, slip away, pass away.

Moby Thesaurus

advance, be all over, be gone, be past, continue, die, disappear, endure, expire, flit, flow, flow on, fly, glide, go, go by, go on, have run out, lapse, last, pass, pass away, pass by, press on, proceed, roll on, run, run its course, run on, run out, slide, slip, slip away, slip by, transpire