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Synonyms for lapse
læpslapse
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Wiktionary
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
lapse
Synonyms:
gliding, falling, flow, onflow, flux, progress, escheatment, devolution, reversion, elapsingAntonyms:
stability, uprightness, stationariness, fixture, arrestation, stoppage, retention, inheritance, possession
Princeton's WordNet
oversight, lapsenoun
a mistake resulting from inattention
Synonyms:
supervision, reverting, superintendence, relapse, supervising, reversion, inadvertence, relapsing, oversight, lapsing, backslidinglapsenoun
a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
"a lapse of three weeks between letters"
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backsliding, lapsing, reversion, reverting, oversight, relapse, relapsingbacksliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, revertingverb
a failure to maintain a higher state
Synonyms:
reversal, atavism, oversight, turnaround, relapsing, regress, backsliding, lapsing, throwback, regression, turnabout, reverse, reverting, relapse, retrogression, reversion, retroversionsink, pass, lapseverb
pass into a specified state or condition
"He sank into nirvana"
Synonyms:
run, perish, fall back, elapse, go past, make pass, lead, top, put across, go by, draw, evanesce, backslide, occur, die, drop down, subside, snuff it, excrete, turn over, go, spend, slide by, recidivate, fade, hand, legislate, happen, egest, exit, exceed, fleet, pass away, slip away, drop dead, overstep, slide down, make it, authorize, pop off, expire, regress, devolve, cash in one's chips, kick the bucket, retrogress, give, fall out, hap, slip by, go on, sink, eliminate, croak, pass off, give-up the ghost, return, blow over, take place, fall off, overhaul, go through, reach, dip, communicate, go under, come about, choke, pass by, go across, overtake, transcend, glide by, relapse, extend, decease, fall, pass, clear, drop, conk, travel by, bury, buy the farm, go down, pass along, authorise, go along, surpass, guide, slump, settle, pass onlapseverb
end, at least for a long time
"The correspondence lapsed"
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slide by, retrogress, glide by, slip away, go by, slip by, relapse, recidivate, sink, elapse, backslide, fall back, pass, go along, regresslapse, backslideverb
drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
Synonyms:
slide by, retrogress, glide by, slip away, go by, slip by, relapse, recidivate, sink, elapse, backslide, fall back, pass, go along, regressrelapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall backverb
go back to bad behavior
"Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
Synonyms:
go along, slip away, recidivate, backslide, retrogress, lag, retrovert, regress, elapse, dawdle, revert, fall back, fall behind, sink, lose, glide by, retrograde, resort, pass, return, slide by, recede, drop off, relapse, slip by, go by, get worse, recur, turn backlapseverb
let slip
"He lapsed his membership"
Synonyms:
slide by, retrogress, glide by, slip away, go by, slip by, relapse, recidivate, sink, elapse, backslide, fall back, pass, go along, regresselapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go alongverb
pass by
"three years elapsed"
Synonyms:
run, perish, elapse, go past, make pass, lead, top, put across, go by, draw, evanesce, continue, occur, die, sneak off, snuff it, excrete, turn over, go, spend, fall back, recidivate, fade, hand, legislate, happen, egest, authorise, exceed, fleet, pass away, slip away, drop dead, overstep, transcend, make it, authorize, sneak out, regress, devolve, cash in one's chips, kick the bucket, give, fall out, hap, slip by, go on, sink, eliminate, croak, pass off, give-up the ghost, return, blow over, take place, play along, expire, overhaul, go through, reach, communicate, go under, come about, keep, choke, pop off, go across, overtake, glide by, sneak away, extend, decease, fall, pass, proceed, pass by, clear, exit, conk, travel by, buy the farm, relapse, pass along, steal away, retrogress, slide by, go along, surpass, guide, backslide, pass on
Dictionary of English Synonymes
lapsenoun
Synonyms:
flow, gliding, flowing, smooth courselapsenoun
Synonyms:
fall, decline, declension, falling offlapsenoun
Synonyms:
slip, fault, error, shortcominglapseverb
Synonyms:
slip, glide, pass slowlylapseverb
Synonyms:
fail in duty, commit a fault, fall from innocencelapseverb
Synonyms:
(Law.) become void
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
lapsenoun
Synonyms:
slip, misstep, indiscretion, backsliding, devolution
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "lapse":
expiry, extinction, lapsing, expire, expiration, adiabatic, extinguishment, non-use, revocation, interval
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How to use lapse in a sentence?
The The House managers have said shame and embarrassment is no excuse for lying. Well, the question about lying, that's your decision. But I can tell you, you put yourself in President Clinton position, and you've already had this big moral lapse, as to what you would do. We are -- none of us are perfect. Sure, you say, President Clinton should have thought of all that beforehand. And indeed President Clinton should. Just as Adam and Eve should have. Just as you and you and you and you, and millions of other people who have been caught in similar circumstances should have thought of it before. And I say none of us are perfect.
The Senate should not wait to act. I sincerely hope that even our colleagues who may wish to vote against the House GOP bill will not make us prolong this brief lapse in authorities, and we'll be able to get these tools back online this week.
We're five plus weeks into the anxiety and stress of this government lapse and your non-pay, you as members of the armed forces should not be expected to shoulder this burden.
What I mean to say is no, I don’t want her back, just words hanging like leaves from a tree limb, nothing can bring her back anyway; words wouldn’t build her bit by bit, piece by piece, she’s gone, and there is strength in knowing that. Maybe the longing will ease. Maybe the seconds will lapse into minutes. I’m not Christ – I can’t raise the dead.
Orkim only alerted authorities 10 hours after they lost contact with Orkim Harmony ... The lapse after they lost communication made it very difficult for us.
Translations for lapse
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- lapsusCatalan, Valencian
- παραγραφήGreek
- prescripción, lapsoSpanish
- erreur, fauteFrench
- 失効Japanese
- lapsuLatin
- vervallenDutch
- pomyłka, potknięcie, błądPolish
- prescrição, lapsoPortuguese
- 失误Chinese
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