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Verb: elapse  i'laps
  1. Become later by the passage of a given amount of time
    "three years elapsed";
    - lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along

Derived forms: elapses, elapsed, elapsing

Type of: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress