Synonyms of elapse

elapse

verb

i-ˈlaps 

as in to expire

to come to an end

in those coin-operated binoculars at scenic areas your viewing time seems to elapse almost before it has begun

Synonyms & Similar Words

• expire
• stop
• end
• cease
• conclude
• halt
• lapse
• pass
• terminate
• finish
• die
• go
• determine
• close
• discontinue
• wind up
• break off
• wink (out)
• stall
• leave off
• break up
• let up
• quit
• bite the dust
• pause
• dead-end
• suspend
• pack (up or in)
• refrain (from)
• lay off (of)
• stay
• desist (from)
• cut out
• break down
• knock off
• abate
• give over
• wind down
• peter (out)
• conk (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• continue
• persist
• hang on
• prolong
• extend
• draw out
• protract

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of elapse

In addition to live video, viewers can track the spacecraft using NASA’s Artemis Real‑time Orbit Website, which displays Orion’s position relative to Earth and the moon, its distance traveled, and elapsed mission time using live data transmitted from Orion to Mission Control in Houston. —Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026

Eleven other people submitted forms pursuant to the FTCA, but their six-month waiting period before being able to file suit against the federal government has not elapsed yet. —Max Rego, The Hill, 31 Mar. 2026

Then not even two months had elapsed before the United States launched joint airstrikes with Israel on Iran on February 28, which resulted in the assassination of its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and launched the ongoing war in the Middle East. —Emile Nuh, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026

After around a trillion years, total, have elapsed since the hot Big Bang, there won’t really be any galaxies left to view other than Milkdromeda, and the star-formation rate may be effectively zero, save for the rare merger of brown dwarfs that then cross the mass threshold to become stars. —Big Think, 13 Mar. 2026