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Noun lapse has 3 senses
- oversight, lapse - a mistake resulting from inattention
--1 is a kind of mistake, error, fault
- lapse - a break or intermission in the occurrence of something; "a lapse of three weeks between letters"
--2 is a kind of pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspension
- backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting - a failure to maintain a higher state
--3 is a kind of failure
--3 has particulars: recidivism
Verb lapse has 6 senses
- sink, pass, lapse - pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into Nirvana"
--1 is one way to move
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- lapse - end, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed"
--2 is one way to end, stop, finish, terminate, cease
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- lapse, backslide - drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
--3 is one way to slip, drop off, drop away, fall away
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back - go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
--4 is one way to revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- lapse - let slip; "He lapsed his membership"
--5 is one way to forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along - pass by; "three years elapsed"
--6 is one way to advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
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