Lapse

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