relapse
Meaning of relapse
noun
- The act or situation of relapsing.
a drug relapse
- An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement
- One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.
- To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.
He has improved recently but keeps relapsing into states of utter confusion.
- (of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated (after a period of improvement).
- To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.
Information about relapse
- The plural form of relapse is: relapses.
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CatalanHyphenation of relapse
re-lapse
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- relapse is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
relapse synonyms
Meaning backsliding:
backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapsing, reversion, reverting
Meaning lapse:
lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress
Translation of relapse
Anagrams of relapse
leapers, pleaser, presale, preseal, repeals
Words that rhyme with relapse
apse, ephapse, antilapse, collapse, delapse, elapse, illapse, interlapse, lapse, neurorelapse, precollapse, prolapse, recollapse, serorelapse, neurosynapse, synapse, counterapse, tapse
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