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Webster 1913 Edition
Elapse
E-lapse′
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Elapsed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Elapsing
.] 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Elapse
ELAPSE
,Verb.
I.
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.]
Definition 2024
elapse
elapse
English
Verb
elapse (third-person singular simple present elapses, present participle elapsing, simple past and past participle elapsed)
- (intransitive, of time) To pass or move by.
- He allowed a month to elapse before beginning the work.
- Several days elapsed before they met again.
Translations
(of time) to pass or move by
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