elapse
verb [intransitive]if a period of time elapses, it passes synonym go byTopics Timec2(时间)消逝,流逝 Oxford Collocations DictionaryElapse is used with these nouns as the subject:- decade
- fortnight
- minute
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘slip away’): from Latin elaps- ‘slipped away’, from the verb elabi, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out, away’ + labi ‘to glide, slip’.