Definition:
- (v. i.) To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
- (v. i.) To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc.
- (n.) A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
- (n.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
- (n.) The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege.
- (n.) A fall or apostasy.
- (v. i.) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses.
- (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.
- (v. t.) To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.
- (v. t.) To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.
Compare lapse with other words:
lapse vs. surrender
lapse vs. lapsed
lapse vs. pass
elaps vs. lapse
lapse vs. lapsible
delapse vs. lapse
fail vs. lapse
lapse vs. loss
elapsed vs. lapse
billow vs. lapse
gap vs. lapse
lapse vs. slippage
break vs. lapse
downfall vs. lapse
dementia vs. lapse
lapse vs. postlapsarian
elapse vs. lapse
lapse vs. void
heresy vs. lapse
lapse vs. subside
lapse vs. mistake
fault vs. lapse
defect vs. lapse
lapse vs. testator
lapse vs. unfavorable
lapse vs. unstable
convection vs. lapse
condition vs. lapse
ground vs. lapse
altitude vs. lapse
decrease vs. lapse
lapse vs. weather
lapse vs. neglect
disuse vs. lapse
lapse vs. right
lapse vs. termination
lapse vs. time
event vs. lapse
continuity vs. lapse
interval vs. lapse
lapse vs. pause
lapse vs. standard
fall vs. lapse
decline vs. lapse
fluff vs. lapse
blooper vs. lapse
blunder vs. lapse
lapse vs. stumble
lapse vs. thinko
labile vs. lapse
breakdown vs. lapse
goof vs. lapse
lapse vs. slip
gaffe vs. lapse