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Lapse

noun, verb

Noun

1
A temporary failure; a slip.
"memory lapse"
2
a failure to maintain a higher state wordnet
3
A decline or fall in standards.
"The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible, because it is only a mere cessation of activity"
4
a mistake resulting from inattention wordnet
5
A pause in continuity.

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6
a break or intermission in the occurrence of something wordnet
7
An interval of time between events.
"Still onward winds the dreary way; ⁠I with it; for I long to prove ⁠No lapse of moons can canker Love, Whatever fickle tongues may say."
8
A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
9
A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
10
A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
11
A fall or apostasy.

Verb

1
To fall away gradually; to subside. intransitive
"This perpetual disposition to shorten our words by retrenching the vowels, is nothing else but a tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended"
2
go back to bad behavior wordnet
3
To fall into error or heresy. intransitive
"To lapſe in Fullneſſe / Is ſorer, than to lye for Neede: and Falſhood / Is worſe in Kings, than Beggers."
4
drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards wordnet
5
To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.

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end, at least for a long time wordnet
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To become void. intransitive
"The connections at Lewisham were never built, and the powers of the Act lapsed; but the spur at Nunhead was partly constructed."
8
pass into a specified state or condition; sink into wordnet
9
To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
"...and if the archbishop shall not fill it up within six Months ensuing, it lapses to the King, but according to the Canon Law to the Pope."
10
for time to move forward wordnet
11
let slip wordnet

Etymology 1

From Middle French laps, from Latin lāpsus, from lābī (“to slip”). Doublet of lapsus.

Etymology 2

From Middle French laps, from Latin lāpsus, from lābī (“to slip”). Doublet of lapsus.

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