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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Elapse \E*lapse"\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Elapsed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Elapsing}.] [L. elapsus, p. p. of elabi to glide away; e out + labi to fall, slide. See {Lapse}.] 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
elapsed
adjective: (of time) having passed or slipped by; "elapsed time"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "elapsed": ago, antiquated, antique, blown over, by, bygone, bypast, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, departed, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten, gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, has-been, irrecoverable, lapsed, no more, obsolete, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, run out, vanished, wound up
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