What is the meaning of the word "lapse"?
Definitions:
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a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
noun
- a lapse of three weeks between letters
- a lapse of three weeks between letters
-
end, at least for a long time verb
- The correspondence lapsed
- The correspondence lapsed
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pass by verb
- three years elapsed
- three years elapsed
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to let slip verb
- They lapsed their gym membership.
- They lapsed their gym membership.
Synonyms:
- backslide
- backsliding
- elapse
- fall back
- glide by
- go along
- go by
- oversight
- pass
- recidivate
- regress
- relapse
- retrogress
- sink
- slide by
- slip away
- slip by