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Definition of elapse : To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; - used chiefly in reference to time.

Synonyms:

give, hand, conk, devolve, kick the bucket, expire, overtake, go through, go under, put across, authorize, slip away, take place, fade, steal away, play along, make pass, exit, hap, pass off, turn over, sneak out, happen, excrete, communicate, keep, pass, recidivate, evanesce, fall, croak, proceed, overstep, overhaul, give-up the ghost, pass by, eliminate, sneak away, return, perish, backslide, decease, reach, time, legislate, relapse, slide by, pass along, go, go past, run, glide by, continue, clear, fall out, regress, pop off, exceed, drop dead, choke, authorise, go on, die, slip by, surpass, transpire, make it, sneak off, come about, go-by, go along, pass away, top, transcend, egest, fleet, guide, sink, cash in one's chips, go across, buy the farm, lapse, extend, travel by, retrogress, pass on, draw, lead, spend, snuff it, occur, fall back, blow over

obliterate, lose, omit, overlook, forget, neglect, erase, blank

Usage examples:

• Scarcely two minutes elapse without a portion falling from some quarter. - "Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist", E. L. Lomax.
• Would so long an interval have been suffered to elapse before he was arrested? - "Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, v7", Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne.
• He kept it in his hand awaiting the elapse of the preliminary half- hour. - "The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise", Margaret Burnham.