elapse

Verb

Meaning

To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pass lapse go along slip away slip by slide by glide by run continue flow fly slip advance die passing
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Antonyms

appear exist flaming amble birth drink
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Hypernyms

advance progress go on move on pass on march on

Hyponyms

fly fell vanish

Phrases with the word

elapse of time

Derivatives

elapsed elapsing

Anagrams

asleep please sapele

Examples

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope. Samuel Johnson

After this (first) initiation...He passes, at this initiation, out of the Hall of Learning into the Hall of Wisdom... A long period of many incarnations may elapse before the control of the astral body is perfected, and the initiate is ready for the next step. Alice Bailey

three years elapsed Source: Internet

And given that time has to elapse before rheumatic diseases leave traces in the bone, they selected the remains of another 43 adults in the over the age of 45 as a control group and analyzed the mitochondrial lineages. Source: Internet

If he allowed too much time to elapse between the initial drafting of a passage and its later elaboration, he found that he could not remember how he had intended to orchestrate the draft. Source: Internet

A period of 72 hours will have to elapse between the time of the certification and the termination of the pregnancy being carried out. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

elapine elapoid elaps elapse of time elapsed elapsed time