elapse
verb
[ ɪˈlaps ]
• (of time) pass or go by.
• "weeks elapsed before anyone was charged with the attack"
Similar:
pass,
go by/past,
proceed,
progress,
advance,
wear on,
march on,
slip by/away/past,
roll by/past,
glide by/past,
slide by/past,
steal by/past,
tick by/past,
fly by/past,
creep by/past,
crawl by/past,
Origin:
late 16th century (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’.
