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elapse

verb
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 [intransitive] not usually used in the progressive tenses通常不用于进行时 (formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they elapse
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he / she / it elapses
🔊/ɪˈlæpsɪz/
🔊/ɪˈlæpsɪz/
past simple elapsed
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past participle elapsed
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-ing form elapsing
🔊/ɪˈlæpsɪŋ/
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  1. if a period of time elapses, it passes （时间）消逝，流逝synonym go by
    • Many years elapsed before they met again.过了许多年他们才再次相见。🔊🔊
    Topics Timec2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryElapse is used with these nouns as the subject:
    • decade
    • fortnight
    • minute
    • …
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    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’.