Synonyms for elapse
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : ih-laps |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈlæps |
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Définition of elapse
Origin :- 1640s, from Middle French elapser, from Latin elapsus, past participle of elabi "slip or glide away, escape," from ex- "out, away" (see ex-) + labi "to slip, glide" (see lapse (n.)). The noun now corresponding to elapse is lapse. Related: Elapsed; elapsing.
- verb go by; slip away
- The length of time which must elapse before the trial could come on was dreadful.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- It was Thursday morning, and three days must elapse before his release.
- Extract from : « Paul Prescott's Charge » by Horatio Alger
- Weeks might elapse, or months even, when no soul passed that way.
- Extract from : « The Trail of a Sourdough » by May Kellogg Sullivan
- Years may elapse before work can be resumed—years of dependence and anxiety.
- Extract from : « The Untroubled Mind » by Herbert J. Hall
- Seas will not now divide us, nor years elapse before we see each other.
- Extract from : « Mary Wollstonecraft » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
- I allowed at least half a minute to elapse before I even lifted up my eyes.
- Extract from : « Lavengro » by George Borrow
- It will make a far greater difference if twenty years elapse.
- Extract from : « Checking the Waste » by Mary Huston Gregory
- Do you always allow three months to elapse between your visits?
- Extract from : « The Hand in the Dark » by Arthur J. Rees
- But four days at least must elapse before they could hope to leave it.
- Extract from : « In Search of the Castaways » by Jules Verne
- Not when a full eight hours must elapse between the call and a reply.
- Extract from : « Highways in Hiding » by George Oliver Smith
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