lapse
Meaning of lapse
noun
- a brief or temporary failure of concentration, memory, or judgement.
a lapse of concentration in the second set cost her the match
- an interval or passage of time.
there was a considerable lapse of time between the two events
- (of a right, privilege, or agreement) become invalid because it is not used, claimed, or renewed; expire.
he let his membership of CND lapse
- pass gradually into (an inferior state or condition).
the country has lapsed into chaos
late Middle English: from Latin lapsus, from labi ‘to glide, slip, or fall’; the verb reinforced by Latin lapsare ‘to slip or stumble’.
Information about lapse
- The plural form of lapse is: lapses.
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CatalanHyphenation of lapse
lapse
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- lapse is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
lapse synonyms
Meaning oversight:
Meaning backsliding:
backsliding, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting
Meaning sink:
Meaning backslide:
Meaning relapse:
relapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress
Meaning elapse:
Meaning lack of success:
Meaning a weakness, especially in a person's character; a shortcoming:
Meaning a minor or careless mistake:
Meaning a mistake:
Meaning an act or judgement that is misguided or wrong:
Meaning a stupid or careless mistake:
Meaning an unattractive or unsatisfactory feature, especially in a piece of work or in a person's character:
Meaning a failure to fulfil a moral or legal obligation:
Meaning failure to take proper care over something:
Meaning the state of having been abandoned and become dilapidated:
Meaning a mark which is not high enough to pass an examination or test:
Meaning an intervening time:
Meaning a break or hole in an object or between two objects:
Meaning a temporary stop in action or speech:
Meaning a pause or break:
Meaning an intervening period of time; an interval:
Meaning a temporary interval of quiet or lack of activity:
Meaning a pause or break in continuity in a sequence or activity:
Meaning an interruption of continuity or uniformity:
Meaning the action or process of moving through or past somewhere on the way from one place to another:
Meaning the route or direction followed by a ship, aircraft, road, or river:
Meaning the passage of something, especially time:
Meaning a length or portion of time:
Meaning a word or phrase used to describe a thing or to express a concept, especially in a particular kind of language or branch of study:
Meaning the full extent of something from end to end; the amount of space that something covers:
Meaning write or name the letters that form (a word) in correct sequence:
Meaning (of a document, authorization, or agreement) come to the end of the period of validity:
Meaning bring to an end:
Meaning declare that (something) is not valid or legally binding:
Meaning remove (someone) from active service in the armed forces because of injury or illness:
Meaning (of a product) no longer available or produced:
Meaning become progressively worse:
Meaning (typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease:
Meaning move from a higher to a lower level, typically rapidly and without control:
Meaning let or make (something) fall vertically:
Meaning make or become worse:
Meaning decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally:
Meaning (of organic matter) rot or decompose through the action of bacteria and fungi:
Meaning (chiefly of animal or vegetable matter) decay or cause to decay by the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose:
Meaning (of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size:
Meaning fail or decline substantially:
lapse antonyms
Meaning belonging to the present time; happening or being used or done now:
Meaning (of an argument or point) having a sound basis in logic or fact; reasonable or cogent:
Meaning make or become better:
Meaning make or become stronger:
Translation of lapse
Anagrams of lapse
Elaps, elaps, leaps, Lepas, lepas, Pales, pales, peals, pelas, Pleas, pleas, salep, saple, sepal, slape, spale, speal
Words that rhyme with lapse
apse, ephapse, antilapse, collapse, delapse, elapse, illapse, interlapse, neurorelapse, precollapse, prolapse, recollapse, relapse, serorelapse, neurosynapse, synapse, counterapse, tapse
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