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| NOUN | 1 | lapse, oversight | A mistake resulting from inattention |
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| 2 | lapse | A break or intermission in the occurrence of something | |
| 3 | lapse, backsliding, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting | A failure to maintain a higher state | |
| VERB | 1 | lapse, sink, pass | Pass into a specified state or condition |
| 2 | lapse | End, at least for a long time | |
| 3 | lapse, backslide | Drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | |
| 4 | lapse, relapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back | Go back to bad behavior | |
| 5 | lapse | Let slip | |
| 6 | lapse, elapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along | Pass by |
| Sounds | lae'ps |
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| Rhymes | collapse, craps, elapse, and 7 more rhymes in aeps... |
| Meaning | A mistake resulting from inattention. |
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| Synonyms | oversight |
| Broader | mistake, error, fault |
| Meaning | A break or intermission in the occurrence of something. |
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| Examples | "a lapse of three weeks between letters" |
| Broader | pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspension |
| Verbs | lapse; lapse; lapse |
| Meaning | A failure to maintain a higher state. |
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| Synonyms | backsliding, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
| Broader | failure |
| Narrower | recidivism |
| Verbs | lapse; lapse |
| Meaning | Pass into a specified state or condition. |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
| Synonyms | sink, pass |
| Broader | move |
| Meaning | End, at least for a long time. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Examples | "The correspondence lapsed" |
| Broader | end, stop, finish, terminate, cease |
| Nouns | lapse |
| Meaning | Drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Synonyms | backslide |
| Broader | slip, drop off, drop away, fall away |
| Nouns | lapse |
| Meaning | Go back to bad behavior. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
| Synonyms | relapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back |
| Broader | revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back |
| Nouns | lapse |
| Meaning | Let slip. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "He lapsed his membership" |
| Broader | forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo |
| Nouns | lapse |
| Meaning | Pass by. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
| Examples | "three years elapsed" |
| Synonyms | elapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along |
| Broader | advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on |
| Narrower | fly, fell, vanish |
| Nouns | lapse |
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