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Definition of 'lapse'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) lapse
an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state:
a lapse of justice.

2.  lapse
a slip or error, often of a trivial sort:
a lapse of memory.

3.  lapse
an interval or passage of time; elapsed period.

4.  lapse
a moral fall, as from rectitude or virtue.

5.  lapse
a fall or decline to a lower grade, condition, or degree:
a lapse into savagery.

6.  lapse
the act of falling, slipping, sliding, etc., slowly or by degrees.

7.  lapse
a falling into disuse.

8.  lapse
termination of an insurance policy, due to nonpayment of a premium.

9.  lapse
Law. the termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it or through failure of some contingency.

10.  lapse
Archaic. a gentle, downward flow, as of water.

11. (v.i.) lapse
to fall or deviate from a previous standard; fail to maintain a normative level.

12.  lapse
to come to an end; stop:
We let our subscription lapse.

13.  lapse
to fall, slip, or sink; subside:
to lapse into silence.

14.  lapse
to fall into disuse:
The custom lapsed after many years.

15.  lapse
to deviate or abandon principles, beliefs, etc.:
to lapse into heresy.

16.  lapse
to fall spiritually, as an apostate.

17.  lapse
to pass away, as time; elapse.

18.  lapse
(of an insurance policy) to cease being in force; terminate.

19.  lapse
Law. to become void, as a legacy to someone who dies before the testator.

Etymology: (1520–30; < L lāpsus an error, slipping =lāb(ī) to slip, err +-sus, for -tus suffix of v. action)

Definition of 'lapse'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) oversight, lapse
a mistake resulting from inattention

2. (noun) lapse
a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
"a lapse of three weeks between letters"

3. (verb) backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting
a failure to maintain a higher state

4. (verb) sink, pass, lapse
pass into a specified state or condition
"He sank into nirvana"

5. (verb) lapse
end, at least for a long time
"The correspondence lapsed"

6. (verb) lapse, backslide
drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards

7. (verb) relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back
go back to bad behavior
"Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"

8. (verb) lapse
let slip
"He lapsed his membership"

9. (verb) elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along
pass by
"three years elapsed"

Definition of 'lapse'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) lapse
when sth fails or is not done properly
a lapse in concentration; a momentary lapse of common sense

2. lapse
an interval of time between
There was a lapse of seven years between our first date and our marriage.

3. (verb) lapse
(of sth official) to stop being effective or valid
The agreement will lapse if payments are not made.

Definition of 'lapse'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) lapse
a gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses

2. (noun) lapse
a slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude

3. (noun) lapse
the termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege

4. (noun) lapse
a fall or apostasy

5. (verb) lapse
to pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses

6. (verb) lapse
to slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake

7. (verb) lapse
to fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc

8. (verb) lapse
to become ineffectual or void; to fall

9. (verb) lapse
to let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass

10. (verb) lapse
to surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender

Translation of 'lapse'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to cease to exist, often because of lack of effort His insurance policy had lapsed and was not renewed.
Afrikaans: verval	Arabic: يَتَوَقَّف	Bulgarian: изтичам
Brazilian: caducar	Czech: odumřít, zaniknout	German: ablaufen
Danish: udløbe	Greek: εκπνέω	Spanish: caducar, vencerse
Estonian: kehtivust kaotama	Farsi: منقضی شدن	Finnish: raueta
French: expirer	Hebrew: לָפוּג	Hindi: रद्द हो जाना
Croatian: isteći	Hungarian: elévül	Indonesian: kedaluwarsa
Icelandic: falla niður	Italian: scadere	Japanese: 失効する
Korean: 쇠퇴하다	Lithuanian: nustoti galiojus	Latvian: (par termiņu) paiet; beig
Malay: luput	Dutch: vervallen	Norwegian: utløpe
Polish: wygasnąć	Persian: خواستار شدن، منقضی شدن	Pashto: ،د پيدايښت سبب كيدل،وجه و
Portuguese: caducar	Romanian: a expira	Russian: прекращаться
Slovak: zaniknúť	Slovenian: zapasti	Serbian: isteći
Swedish: förfalla, upphöra	Thai: หยุด	Turkish: zamanı geçmek, hakkını ka
Taiwanese: 終止	Ukrainian: втрачати чинність	Urdu: زائل ہو جانا
Vietnamese: mất hiệu lực	Chinese: 终止
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