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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fall back, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress |
| Type of | revert, turn back, regress, retrovert, return |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | backsliding, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
| Type of | failure |
| Has types | recidivism |
lapse::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | suspension, intermission, interruption, pause, break |
a lapse of three weeks between letters.
Examples of lapse
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Both sides agree that the economy is too weak to allow all of the cuts to lapse.
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He adds that penalties for letting premium payments lapse are not strong enough.
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The strikes began Dec. 27, a week after Hamas let an Egypt-brokered truce lapse.
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One, a defensive lapse with our marking, and the second with the ball we played.
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That's just enough of a chore that distracted users may let their updates lapse.
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Except for an occasional lapse in intonation, the Emerson played with assurance.
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Crabtree's only lapse was a solo homer in the fifth to center by Charina Sumner.
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If this right is exercised, the First Placing and the Second Placing will lapse.
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Have you ever had a lapse and smoked a cigarette while wearing a nicotine patch?
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- Oversight: a mistake resulting from inattention
- Sink: pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into nirvana"
- A break or intermission in the occurrence of something; "a lapse of three weeks between letters"
- End, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed"
- Backsliding: a failure to maintain a higher state
- Drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
- Lapse and anti-lapse are complementary concepts under the law of wills, which address the disposition of property that is willed to someone who dies before the testator (the writer of the will).
- A slip (also sometimes called a lapse) is a psychological term that denotes a particular action during or after (most usually after) a psychological or medical treatment. ...
- The Lapse was an American indie band formed in late 1997. The band was first signed to Gern Blandsten, then Southern Records. The Lapse was the duo of then boyfriend/girlfriend Chris Leo (ex-Native nod and brother of Ted Leo) and Toko Yasuda (Enon, ex-Blonde Redhead). ...
