elapses

The word “elapses” has 3 syllables: e-laps-es

It's pronounced as /ɪˈlæpsɪz/


What is synonym and antonym for elapses?

In the thesaurus, “elapses” has 33 synonyms and 7 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for elapses along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for elapses

  • abates
  • bites the dust
  • breaks down
  • breaks off
  • breaks up
  • ceases
  • closes
  • concludes
  • cuts out
  • dead-ends
  • determines
  • dies
  • discontinues
  • ends
  • expires
  • finishes
  • gives over
  • goes
  • halts
  • knocks off
  • lapses
  • leaves off
  • lets up
  • passes
  • pauses
  • quits
  • stalls
  • stays
  • stops
  • suspends
  • terminates
  • winds down
  • winds up

Antonyms for elapses

  • continues
  • draws out
  • extends
  • hangs on
  • persists
  • prolongs
  • protracts

Meanings of elapses

  • verb
    1. (of time) To pass or move by.

Example Sentences

  • As time elapses, the urgency of the task becomes more apparent.
  • The process becomes smoother as experience elapses over the years.
  • The clock ticks away, and every second that elapses brings us closer to the deadline.
  • Once the allotted time elapses, the system will automatically shut down.
  • The situation may change significantly as more time elapses.

On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to elapses, such as: abates, bites the dust, breaks down, breaks off, breaks up, ceases, closes.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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attacks

  • abuse
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  • access
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  • addresses
  • advance
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  • aggress
  • aggression
  • aggressions
  • agitations
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  • air raids
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  • approaches
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  • assail
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  • barrage
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  • bash
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  • blast
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  • boff
  • bombard
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  • boot
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  • bout
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  • brain
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  • buckle down
  • buffets
  • bum-rushes
  • bushwhacks
  • bust
  • calumny
  • cannonades
  • cannons
  • cases
  • castigates
  • censure
  • charge
  • charges
  • chastises
  • chides
  • chop down
  • clip
  • clock
  • club
  • collapses
  • combat
  • combativeness
  • convulsion
  • convulsions
  • cook
  • counter-aggressions
  • counter-assaults
  • counter-attacks
  • counter-strikes
  • counteraggressions
  • counterassaults
  • counterattacks
  • counteroffensives
  • counterstrikes
  • coups de main
  • criticism
  • criticize
  • criticizes
  • curses
  • deal with
  • defilement
  • denigration
  • denunciation
  • descents
  • dirty deed
  • disease
  • disparages
  • dive into
  • drive
  • eclampsias
  • encounter
  • encroachment
  • envelopments
  • envelops
  • excoriates
  • execrates
  • faces
  • failure
  • fit
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  • flanks
  • flies at
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  • frenzies
  • fulminates
  • fusillades
  • goes at
  • hails
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  • illness
  • imprecates
  • impugn
  • impugnment
  • incursion
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  • infiltrate
  • initiative
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  • intervention
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  • invade
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  • irruption
  • jump
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  • knock block off
  • knock cold
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  • lambastes
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  • larrup
  • lay into
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  • libel
  • libels
  • light into
  • lights into
  • loots
  • malign
  • mobs
  • molest
  • mug
  • mugging
  • mugs
  • nukes
  • offences
  • offense
  • offenses
  • offensive
  • offensives
  • onrush
  • onset
  • onsets
  • onslaught
  • onslaughts
  • outbreak
  • overruns
  • overwhelm
  • pangs
  • paroxysm
  • paroxysms
  • pillages
  • pitches in
  • pitches into
  • plasters
  • plunders
  • plunge into
  • potshots
  • pounce upon
  • presses
  • profanes
  • prostrations
  • pugnacity
  • punch
  • pursues
  • push
  • puts down
  • raid
  • raids
  • rape
  • ravages
  • rebukes
  • recurrences
  • refute
  • relapse
  • relapses
  • reprimands
  • reprove
  • revile
  • reviles
  • robs
  • rounds on
  • rush
  • rushes
  • sacks
  • sails into
  • sallies
  • salvoes
  • salvos
  • savages
  • scathes
  • scolds
  • seizure
  • seizures
  • set to
  • set upon
  • sets at
  • sets on
  • sets upon
  • shoot down
  • sicks
  • sics
  • sieges
  • skirmish
  • slams
  • slander
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  • slog
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  • soak
  • sorties
  • spasm
  • spasms
  • spell
  • spells
  • stab
  • start in on
  • storm
  • storming
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  • stretch
  • strike
  • strikes
  • stroke
  • surprises
  • surprizes
  • swarms
  • tackle
  • tackles
  • take the offensive
  • take up
  • takes up
  • tear into
  • tears into
  • throe
  • throes
  • thrust
  • ties into
  • traduces
  • trashes
  • turn on
  • turns
  • undertakes
  • vilification
  • vilifies
  • vilify
  • violation
  • vituperates
  • volley
  • volleys
  • wallop
  • waylays
  • whammies
  • whips
  • whop

backslides

  • atavisms
  • declines
  • degenerates
  • degenerations
  • drops
  • ebbs
  • falls
  • lapses
  • nondevelopments
  • regresses
  • regressions
  • relapses
  • retrogrades
  • retrogresses
  • retrogressions
  • returns
  • reversions
  • reverts
  • throws back
  • worsens

dead ends

  • Mexican standoffs
  • abates
  • alleys
  • alleyways
  • arterials
  • arteries
  • avenues
  • backstreets
  • binds
  • bites the dust
  • bottlenecks
  • boulevards
  • branches
  • breaks down
  • breaks off
  • breaks up
  • bystreets
  • byways
  • carriageways
  • causeways
  • ceases
  • circles
  • closes
  • concludes
  • corners
  • corridors
  • crossroads
  • cul-de-sacs
  • culs-de-sac
  • cuts out
  • deadlocks
  • determines
  • dies
  • difficulties
  • dilemmas
  • discontinues
  • drags
  • drives
  • elapses
  • ends
  • expires
  • expressways
  • finishes
  • fixes
  • freeways
  • gives over
  • goes
  • gridlocks
  • halts
  • high roads
  • highways
  • holes
  • impasses
  • jams
  • knocks off
  • lanes
  • laneways
  • lapses
  • leaves off
  • lets up
  • logjams
  • mews
  • morasses
  • passes
  • pauses
  • pickles
  • pike
  • pikes
  • pinches
  • places
  • plights
  • predicaments
  • problems
  • quagmires
  • quandaries
  • quits
  • roads
  • roadways
  • routes
  • rows
  • secondary roads
  • shunpikes
  • side roads
  • side streets
  • spots
  • stalemates
  • stalls
  • standoffs
  • standstills
  • stays
  • stops
  • suspends
  • terminates
  • thoroughfares
  • thruways
  • traces
  • tracks
  • trails
  • turnpikes
  • ways
  • winds down
  • winds up

eclampsias

  • accesses
  • agitations
  • attacks
  • bouts
  • brainstorms
  • breakdowns
  • cases
  • collapses
  • convulsions
  • fits
  • frenzies
  • pangs
  • paroxysms
  • prostrations
  • recurrences
  • relapses
  • seizures
  • sieges
  • spasms
  • spells
  • throes
  • turns

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