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ELAPSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of time) having passed or slipped by
Example:
elapsed time
Classified under:
Participle:
elapse (pass by)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb elapse
Context examples:
How long something has existed; elapsed time since birth.
(Age, NCI Thesaurus)
In the swift instant that elapsed, the words trembled on her lips. But she did not utter them. She was not quite brave enough; she did not quite dare.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But even in the minute that had elapsed the number of the rats had vastly increased.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Even after that, a long time elapsed before the man and woman succeeded in patting him.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
But now several minutes elapsed without bringing the sound of his voice; and when occasionally, unable to resist the impulse of curiosity, she raised her eyes to his face, she as often found him looking at Jane as at herself, and frequently on no object but the ground.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Johnson, as Johnson, was unrecognizable; and not only that, for his features, as human features at all, were unrecognizable, so discoloured and swollen had they become in the few minutes which had elapsed between the beginning of the beating and the dragging forward of the body.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But hurried on by the precipitancy of youth, and having his imperial majesty’s license to pay my attendance upon the emperor of Blefuscu, I took this opportunity, before the three days were elapsed, to send a letter to my friend the secretary, signifying my resolution of setting out that morning for Blefuscu, pursuant to the leave I had got; and, without waiting for an answer, I went to that side of the island where our fleet lay.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Should the throes of change take me in the act of writing it, Hyde will tear it in pieces; but if some time shall have elapsed after I have laid it by, his wonderful selfishness and circumscription to the moment will probably save it once again from the action of his ape-like spite.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Incommunicative as he was, some time elapsed before I had an opportunity of gauging his mind.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Also, he learned that but brief time elapsed between his sounding of the alarm and Grey Beaver coming to his aid.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
