elapsing - 2 dictionary results
e⋅lapse
[i-laps] 
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 ēlapsus (ptp. of ēlābī to slip away), equiv. to e- e- + lab- slip + -sus for -tus ptp. suffix
1635–45; < L ēlapsus (ptp. of ēlābī to slip away), equiv. to e- e- + lab- slip + -sus for -tus ptp. suffix
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Link To elapsing
| e·lapse (ĭ-lāps') 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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