elapseverb [ I ]
uk/iˈlæps/us/iˈlæps/formalC2 If time elapses, it goes past:
Four years had elapsed since he left college and still he hadn't found a job.
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Spending time & time passing
- all the time in the world idiom
- Anno Domini
- course
- employ
- fall
- fall away
- go by
- misspend
- pass
- passage
- passing
- run
- sand
- spread sth over sth
- the sands of time are running out idiom
- tick
- tick away/by
- time and tide wait for no man idiom
- time flies idiom
- while
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