elapse Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb pass by
    go along; lapse; slip away; go by; glide by; slip by; pass; slide by.
    • three years elapsed

WordNet

E*lapse" intransitive verb
Etymology
L. elapsus, p. p. of elabi to glide away; e out + labi to fall, slide. See Lapse.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Elapsed ; present participle & verbal noun Elapsing
Definitions
  1. 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 1913