Lapse ¹

Definition: A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.

Lapse ²

Definition: A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.

Lapse ³

Definition: 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.

Lapse ⁴

Definition: A fall or apostasy.

Lapse ⁵

Definition: To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; mostly restricted to figurative uses.

Lapse ⁶

Definition: 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.

Lapse ⁷

Definition: 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.

Lapse ⁸

Definition: To become ineffectual or void; to fall.

Lapse ⁹

Definition: To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.

Lapse ¹⁰

Definition: To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.

lapse ¹¹

Definition: a failure to maintain a higher state

lapse ¹²

Definition: a mistake resulting from inattention

lapse ¹³

Definition: a break or intermission in the occurrence of something; "a lapse of three weeks between letters"

lapse ¹⁴

Definition: go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"

lapse ¹⁵

Definition: drop to a lower level, as in one''s morals or standards

lapse ¹⁶

Definition: end, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed"

lapse ¹⁷

Definition: pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into Nirvana"

lapse ¹⁸

Definition: pass by; "three years elapsed"

lapse ¹⁹

Definition: let slip; "He lapsed his membership"