Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
ELAPSE
elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along
(verb) pass by; “three years elapsed”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
elapse (third-person singular simple present elapses, present participle elapsing, simple past and past participle elapsed)
(intransitive, of time) To pass or move by.
Synonyms
• See elapse
Anagrams
• Sapele, asleep, please, sapele
Source: Wiktionary
E*lapse", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Elapsed; p. pr. & vb. n. Elapsing.] Etym: [L. elapsus, p. p. of elabi to glide away; e out + labi to fall, slide. See Lapse.]
Definition: To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time. Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. Hoole.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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