elapse

English

Etymology

From Middle French elapser, from Latin elapsus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æps

Verb

elapse (third-person singular simple present elapses, present participle elapsing, simple past and past participle elapsed)

1. (intransitive, of time) To pass or move by.

   He allowed a month to elapse before beginning the work.

   Several days elapsed before they met again.

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 322:

     The week that was yet to elapse, she spent in wandering through her uncle's favourite walks in hours of tearful vigil, beside his tomb, and in collecting together every trifle on which he had set a value.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:elapse

Derived terms

• elapsion
• elapsing

Translations

(of time) to pass or move by

• Arabic: مَرَّ‎ (ar) (marra)
• Azerbaijani: keçmək (az), ötmək (az)
• Bulgarian: изти́чам (bg) (iztíčam), измина́вам (време) (izminávam (vreme))
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過去 (zh), 过去 (zh) (guòqù), 過 (zh), 过 (zh) (guò)

• Finnish: kulua (fi), vieriä (fi), vierähtää
• French: se passer (fr), s'écouler (fr)
• German: vergehen (de), verrinnen (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: διαγίγνομαι (diagígnomai)

• Italian: trascorrere (it)
• Japanese: 過ぎる (ja) (すぎる, sugiru), 経つ (ja) (たつ, tatsu)
• Korean: 지나가다 (ko) (jinagada)
• Polish: upływać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: passar (pt), transcorrer (pt)
• Russian: проходи́ть (ru) impf (proxodítʹ), пройти́ (ru) pf (projtí), истека́ть (ru) impf (istekátʹ), исте́чь (ru) pf (istéčʹ), минова́ть (ru) impf (minovátʹ), ми́нуть (ru) pf (mínutʹ)
• Spanish: transcurrir (es)
• Swedish: förgå (sv), passera (sv), förlöpa (sv)
• Vietnamese: trôi qua
• Zazaki: ravêren

Anagrams

• Sapele, asleep, please, sapele

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Latin

Participle

ēlāpse

1. vocative masculine singular of ēlāpsus