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Elapse 1100 Words You Need

Elapse 1100 Words You Need

/ɪˈlæps/ (verb)

If time elapses, it goes past, go by, pass, pass by, intervene, slip away, lapse:

The egg takes eleven weeks to incubate and the chick, which may spend up to three days breaking out of the shell, does not attain fledgling stage until ten months later. A further ten years elapse before it becomes a fully developed adult.

Four years had elapsed since he left college and still he hadn’t found a job.

Adj: elapsed

French: s’écouler

Farsi: سپری شدن


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