lapse
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(verb) drop to a lower level; as in one's morals or standards |
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Synonyms: backslide |
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Related Words: drop away, drop off, fall away, slip |
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(verb) end, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed" |
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Related Words: cease, end, finish, terminate |
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(verb) let slip; "He lapsed his membership" |
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Related Words: forfeit, forgo, give up, render, throw overboard, waive |
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(noun) a break or intermission in the occurrence of something; "a lapse of three weeks between letters" |
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Related Words: break, intermission, interruption, pause, suspension |
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(noun) a failure to maintain a higher state |
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Synonyms: backsliding, lapsing, recidivism, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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Related Words: failure |
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(noun) a mistake resulting from inattention |
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Synonyms: oversight |
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Related Words: error, fault, mistake |
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(verb) go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals" |
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Synonyms: fall back, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress |
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(verb) pass by, as of time |
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Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by |
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Related Words: advance, fell, fly, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress, vanish |
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(verb) pass into a specified state or condition: "He sank into Nirvana" |
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Synonyms: pass, sink |
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Related Words: move |
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