Main entry: lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting, backsliding
Definition: a failure to maintain a higher state
Definition: a mistake resulting from inattention
Main entry: lapse
Definition: a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
Usage: a lapse of three weeks between letters
Main entry: recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress, fall back, lapse
Definition: go back to bad behavior
Usage: Those who recidivate are often minor criminals
Definition: drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
Main entry: lapse
Definition: end, at least for a long time
Usage: The correspondence lapsed
Definition: pass into a specified state or condition
Usage: He sank into nirvana
Main entry: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by, lapse
Definition: pass by
Usage: three years elapsed
Main entry: lapse
Definition: let slip
Usage: He lapsed his membership