Dictionary Entry
lapse
lapse is a 5-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 19 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
- 2noun
A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
A fall or apostasy.
- 5intransitive verb
To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses.
- 6intransitive verb
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.
- 7intransitive verb
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.
- 8intransitive verb
To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
- 9transitive verb
To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.
- 10transitive verb
To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.
- 11noun
a failure to maintain a higher state
- 12noun
a mistake resulting from inattention
Synonyms
- 13noun
a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
"a lapse of three weeks between letters"
- 14verb
go back to bad behavior
"Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
- 15verb
drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
Synonyms
- 16verb
end, at least for a long time
"The correspondence lapsed"
- 17verb
pass into a specified state or condition
"He sank into nirvana"
- 18verb
pass by
"three years elapsed"
- 19verb
let slip
"He lapsed his membership"
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