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verb (v)

• pass by(verb.motion)

  Example:
  Three years elapsed.
  

  Synonym:
  glide by, go along, go by, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by
  

  source: wordnet30
• To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.(verb)

  source: webster1913