relapse
relapse is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as intransitive verb, verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.
- intransitive verb. To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed.
- intransitive verb. To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.
- verb. A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.
- verb. One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.
- noun. a failure to maintain a higher state
- verb. go back to bad behavior
"Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
- verb. deteriorate in health
"he relapsed"
Synonyms
backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapsing, reversion, reverting, recidivate, regress, retrogress
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in relapse:
leapers, pleaser, presale, preseal, repeals
Common word forms
relapsed, relapser, relapses, relapsing
Words from these letters
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