Synonyms: lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting, backsliding
Definition: a failure to maintain a higher state
Definition: a mistake resulting from inattention
Similar words: mistake, error, fault
Definition: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
Usage: he made a bad mistake; she was quick to point out my errors; I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults
Synonyms: lapse
Definition: a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
Usage: a lapse of three weeks between letters
Similar words: pause, break, intermission, interruption, suspension
Definition: a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
Synonyms: recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress, fall back, lapse
Definition: go back to bad behavior
Usage: Those who recidivate are often minor criminals
Similar words: retrovert, return, revert, regress, turn back
Definition: go back to a previous state
Usage: We reverted to the old rules
Definition: drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
Similar words: drop away, drop off, fall away, slip
Definition: get worse
Usage: My grades are slipping
Synonyms: lapse
Definition: end, at least for a long time
Usage: The correspondence lapsed
Similar words: cease, stop, terminate, finish, end
Definition: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
Usage: the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed; Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other; My property ends by the bushes; The symphony ends in a pianissimo
Definition: pass into a specified state or condition
Usage: He sank into nirvana
Similar words: move
Definition: go or proceed from one point to another
Usage: the debate moved from family values to the economy
Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by, lapse
Definition: pass by
Usage: three years elapsed
Similar words: go on, advance, march on, progress, move on, pass on
Definition: move forward, also in the metaphorical sense
Usage: Time marches on
Synonyms: lapse
Definition: let slip
Usage: He lapsed his membership
Similar words: give up, throw overboard, forego, forfeit, forgo, waive
Definition: lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime
Usage: you've forfeited your right to name your successor; forfeited property