Synonyms of elapses

elapses

verb

present tense third-person singular of elapse

as in expires

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

• expires
• ceases
• ends
• stops
• halts
• concludes
• passes
• terminates
• dies
• closes
• finishes
• goes
• determines
• lapses
• discontinues
• winds up
• breaks off
• quits
• leaves off
• stalls
• winks (out)
• breaks up
• bites the dust
• pauses
• suspends
• dead-ends
• lets up
• packs (up or in)
• stays
• refrains (from)
• abates
• cuts out
• breaks down
• lays off (of)
• gives over
• desists (from)
• knocks off
• winds down
• conks (out)
• peters (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of elapses

When that time elapses, items must be removed form the street. —Matt Schooley, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026

Longer payouts mean more time elapses between when a jeweler buys a customer’s antique necklace, and when that jeweler receives a check from a refiner. —Maliya Ellis, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026

This cycle elapses across thousands of years—glacially slow to us but almost instantaneous on cosmic scales. —K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2026

How much time elapses between events, and what time something happens, depends on the observer’s frame of reference. —Adrian Bardon, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025

As the Universe expands, the expansion rate and energy density both do not change, leading to a relentless state where the Universe doubles in size, again and again, each time a certain interval elapses. —Big Think, 24 Oct. 2025