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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
e·lapse       [i-laps] Pronunciation Key verb, e·lapsed, e·laps·ing, noun
–verb (used without object)
1.(of time) to slip or pass by: Thirty minutes elapsed before the performance began.
–noun
2.the passage or termination of a period of time; lapse.
[Origin: 1635–45; < L élapsus (ptp. of élābī to slip away), equiv. to e- e- + lab- slip + -sus for -tus ptp. suffix]
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e·lapse       (ĭ-lāps')  Pronunciation Key 
intr.v.   e·lapsed, e·laps·ing, e·laps·es
To slip by; pass: Weeks elapsed before we could start renovating.

n.   Passage; lapse: met again after an elapse of many years.


[Latin ēlābī, ēlāps- : ē-, ex-, ex- + lābī, to slip.]

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elapsed

adjective
(of time) having passed or slipped by; "elapsed time" 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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