elapse

Other forms of elapse

past tense

elapsed·

present participle

elapsing·

third person

elapses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about elapse

What does elapse mean?

elapse means "pass by".

How many syllables are in elapse?

elapse has 2 syllables: e-lapse. The stress falls on "lapse". In IPA it is /ɪˈlæps/.

What is another word for elapse?

Close synonyms include lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elapse a common word?

elapse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with elapse?

3 words rhyme with elapse. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.