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elapsed

[ih-laps]

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verb (used without object)

(of time) to slip or pass by: Thirty minutes elapsed before the performance began.

noun

the passage or termination of a period of time; lapse.

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Origin:
1635–45; < Latin ēlapsus (past participle of ēlābī to slip away), equivalent to e- e- + lab- slip + -sus for -tus past participle suffix

Related forms

un·e·lapsed, adjective

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elapse

1640s, from M.Fr. elapser, from L. elapsus, pp. of elabi "slip or glide away," from ex- "out, away" + labi "to slip, glide." The noun now corresponding to elapse is lapse. Related: Elapsed; elapsing.

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