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nouna mistake resulting from inattention
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verbpass into a specified state or conditiontype of:
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"three years elapsed"verbpass by
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verbgo back to bad behavior
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verbdrop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
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nouna failure to maintain a higher statetype of:
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"a lapse of three weeks between letters"nouna break or intermission in the occurrence of somethingtype of:
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"The correspondence lapsed"verbend, at least for a long time
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"He lapsed his membership"verblet slip
Definition that contains lapse
- go pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action
- past the time that has elapsed
- fall the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve
- fall a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- 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