elapsing

The word “elapsing” has 3 syllables: e-laps-ing

It's pronounced as /ɪˈlæpsɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for elapsing?

In the thesaurus, “elapsing” has 50 synonyms and 14 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for elapsing

  • abating
  • biting the dust
  • breaking down
  • breaking off
  • breaking up
  • ceasing
  • cessation
  • close
  • closing
  • concluding
  • conclusion
  • cutting out
  • dead-ending
  • death
  • decease
  • departure
  • determining
  • discontinuing
  • duration
  • dying
  • end
  • ending
  • expiring
  • expiry
  • finishing
  • giving over
  • going
  • halting
  • knocking off
  • lapse
  • lapsing
  • leaving off
  • letting up
  • passage
  • passing
  • pausing
  • progress
  • quitting
  • stalling
  • staying
  • stopping
  • suspending
  • sweep
  • term
  • terminating
  • termination
  • terminus
  • time
  • winding down
  • winding up

Antonyms for elapsing

  • beginning
  • birth
  • commencement
  • continuing
  • drawing out
  • extending
  • hanging on
  • inception
  • living
  • opening
  • persisting
  • prolonging
  • protracting
  • start

Meanings of elapsing

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

Example Sentences

  • As the deadline approaches, the feeling of urgency increases with each minute elapsing.
  • Time is critical, and the moment elapsing could impact the outcome of the experiment.
  • She noticed that the time elapsing between each phase of the project was becoming a concern.
  • With every second elapsing, the chances of finding a solution seemed to diminish.
  • The team worked diligently, aware of the time elapsing before the final presentation.

On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to elapsing, such as: abating, beginning, birth, biting the dust, breaking down, breaking off, breaking up.

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

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dead-ending

  • abating
  • biting the dust
  • breaking down
  • breaking off
  • breaking up
  • ceasing
  • closing
  • concluding
  • cutting out
  • determining
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  • dying
  • elapsing
  • ending
  • expiring
  • finishing
  • giving over
  • going
  • halting
  • knocking off
  • lapsing
  • leaving off
  • letting up
  • passing
  • pausing
  • quitting
  • stalling
  • staying
  • stopping
  • suspending
  • terminating
  • winding down
  • winding up

halting

lapsing

quitting

passing

  • a lot
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  • annihilation
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  • cooking
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  • cursory
  • curtains
  • cutting out
  • damn
  • damned
  • dang
  • dead-ending
  • deadly
  • death
  • decease
  • deciduous
  • declaring
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  • deeply
  • defunction
  • delegating
  • delivering
  • demise
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  • deselecting
  • desperately
  • destruction
  • determining
  • detouring
  • developing
  • dictating
  • digesting
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  • disapproving
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  • discernibly
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  • discontinuing
  • discussing
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  • dismissing
  • disowning
  • dispensing
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  • disproving
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  • dissolution
  • distributing
  • dividing
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  • doom
  • downright
  • drawling
  • dying
  • effecting
  • elapsing
  • eminently
  • enacting
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  • end
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  • enduring
  • enormously
  • entirely
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  • enunciating
  • ephemeral
  • especially
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  • ever
  • exceeding
  • exceedingly
  • exceptionally
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  • executing
  • execution
  • exit
  • experiencing
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  • extensively
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  • extra
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  • fabulously
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  • forbearing
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  • formulating
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  • frightfully
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  • full
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  • furnishing
  • gainsaying
  • gasping
  • getting off
  • getting through
  • giving
  • giving over
  • giving up
  • glancing
  • going
  • going down
  • going off
  • going on
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  • good and
  • grandly
  • granting
  • grave
  • great divide
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  • halting
  • handing
  • handing down
  • handing in
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  • happening
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  • holding up
  • holding water
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  • killing
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  • lapsing
  • laying down
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  • legislating
  • lending
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  • loss
  • majorly
  • making
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  • martyrdom
  • massacre
  • materializing
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  • mighty
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  • monumentally
  • mortally
  • most
  • mouthing
  • much
  • murmuring
  • negating
  • negativing
  • nixing
  • notably
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  • obscenely
  • obviously
  • occurring
  • ordaining
  • overmuch
  • overruling
  • palpably
  • particularly
  • passage
  • passing muster
  • passing up
  • pausing
  • pawing
  • permitting
  • phrasing
  • plainly
  • playing
  • plentifully
  • positively
  • posting
  • proceeding
  • proclaiming
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  • prohibiting
  • promulgating
  • proscribing
  • provisional
  • publicizing
  • publishing
  • purely
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  • putting into words
  • quick
  • quietus
  • quitting
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  • ratifying
  • rattling
  • reaching
  • real
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  • rebuffing
  • rebutting
  • recalling
  • recanting
  • receiving
  • recommending
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  • refusing
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  • releasing
  • relinquishing
  • remarkably
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  • rendering
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  • renouncing
  • repassing
  • reposing
  • reprobating
  • repudiating
  • resulting
  • retracting
  • retransferring
  • retransmitting
  • revoking
  • right
  • rising
  • roaring
  • roaringly
  • ruin
  • sanctioning
  • saying
  • scorning
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  • seeing
  • self-destruction
  • self-murder
  • self-slaughter
  • seriously
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  • shallow
  • sharing
  • shooting
  • shooting down
  • short
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  • shouting
  • significantly
  • silence
  • slaughter
  • sleep
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  • staggeringly
  • stalling
  • standing up
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  • stopping
  • submitting
  • substantially
  • such
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  • suicide
  • super
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  • supplying
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  • taking
  • taking back
  • talking
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  • temporary
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  • terribly
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  • throwing out
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  • thumping
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  • trusting
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  • wholly
  • wicked
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  • willing
  • winding down
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  • withdrawing
  • witnessing
  • wording
  • working
  • yielding

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