elapsed


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e·lapse

 (ĭ-lăps′)
intr.v. e·lapsed, e·laps·ing, e·laps·es
To slip by; pass: Weeks elapsed before we could start renovating.
n.
Passage; lapse: an elapse of many years.
[Latin ēlābī, ēlāps- : ē-, ex-, ex- + lābī, to slip.]
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Adj.1.elapsed - (of time) having passed or slipped by; "elapsed time"
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Already I was puzzled to compute the period of time which had elapsed since we broke through the crust of the inner world.
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The appearance of the surface and the vegetation show that elsewhere years have elapsed since the waters washed their base.
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At least I am, and nearly twenty years had elapsed, and here was I burdened under a load of affection, like a sack of returned love-letters, with no lap into which to dump them.
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Not a day elapsed which did not bring us news of the decease of some acquaintance.
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Nearly an hour had elapsed before he rose to return to the house.
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As I sit here tonight in my little study overlooking the Hudson, just twenty years have elapsed since I first opened my eyes upon Mars.
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My heart runs blood whenever I think of it; it is so fresh in my memory that I cannot dismiss it from my thoughts, nor rest for its insistence, although a year has now elapsed since the events took place.
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MORE than three years have elapsed since the occurrence of the events recorded in this volume.
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Dorrimore explained at some length how he happened to be there, and where he had been during the years that had elapsed since I had seen him.
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It was not until Ernest and I were back in New York, and after weeks had elapsed, that we were able to comprehend thoroughly the full sweep of the disaster that had befallen the Cause.
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Now four days had elapsed, and Valentine still lived.
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Two days elapsed before the body of Sir John was found.
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