Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb elapse

1 sense of elapse

Sense 1
elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along -- (pass by; "three years elapsed")
       => advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on -- (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense; "Time marches on")