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Definitions of lapse
  1. noun
    a mistake resulting from inattention

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  2. verb
    pass into a specified state or condition

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  3. verb
    pass by
    "three years elapsed"
  4. verb
    go back to bad behavior
  5. verb
    drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards

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  6. noun
    a failure to maintain a higher state
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  7. noun
    a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
    "a lapse of three weeks between letters"
  8. verb
    end, at least for a long time
    "The correspondence lapsed"
  9. verb
    let slip
    "He lapsed his membership"
Definition that contains lapse
  • go pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action
  • past the time that has elapsed
  • fall a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
  • fall the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve
  • blame an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed
  • blame a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
  • fallen having fallen in or collapsed
  • shock (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor
  • slip a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
  • turkey a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923
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