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