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lapse

English

  1. 🔊 a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
    “a lapse of three weeks between letters”
  2. 🔊 a failure to maintain a higher state
  3. 🔊 a mistake resulting from inattention
  4. 🔊 drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
  5. 🔊 end, at least for a long time
    “The correspondence lapsed”
  6. 🔊 let slip
    “He lapsed his membership”
  7. 🔊 go back to bad behavior
    “Those who recidivate are often minor criminals”
  8. 🔊 pass by
    “three years elapsed”
  9. 🔊 pass into a specified state or condition
    “He sank into nirvana”

Similar words

backsliding lapsing relapse relapsing reversion reverting oversight relapse recidivate regress retrogress fall back backslide sink pass elapse pass slip by glide by slip away go by slide by go along abeyance