elapse

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Middle French elapser, from Latin elapsus.

But days, weeks, months, elapsed. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
Hours seemed to elapse in this way. — She who sleeps : $b A romance of New York and the Nile, Sax Rohmer
“Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends. — Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along

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