Elapsed vs. Lapse — What's the Difference?

To slip by; pass

A brief or temporary failure of concentration, memory, or judgement

Passage; lapse

An interval or passage of time

Simple past tense and past participle of elapse

(of a right, privilege, or agreement) become invalid because it is not used, claimed, or renewed; expire

(of time) having passed or slipped by;

Pass gradually into (an inferior state or condition)

To fall from a previous level or standard, as of accomplishment, quality, or conduct

To deviate from a prescribed or accepted way

To pass gradually or smoothly; slip

To come to an end, especially gradually or temporarily

To be no longer valid or active; expire

(Law) To cease to be available as a result of expiration, disuse, or impossibility. Used of a right or privilege.

To go by; elapse

To allow to lapse.

A usually minor or temporary failure; a slip

A deterioration or decline

A moral fall

A break in continuity; a pause

A period of time; an interval

(Law) The termination of a right or privilege as a result of expiration, disuse, or impossibility.

A temporary failure; a slip.

A decline or fall in standards.

A pause in continuity.

An interval of time between events.

A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.

(meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.

(legal) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.

(theology) A fall or apostasy.

(intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.

(intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.

To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.

(intransitive) To become void.

To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.

A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; - restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.

A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.

The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege.

A fall or apostasy.

To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; - mostly restricted to figurative uses.

To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.

To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc.

To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.

To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.

A mistake resulting from inattention

A break or intermission in the occurrence of something;

A failure to maintain a higher state

Pass into a specified state or condition;

End, at least for a long time;

Drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards

Go back to bad behavior;

Let slip;

Pass by;