Lapse is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LAPSE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to pass into disuse
• (of a right, privilege, or agreement) become invalid because it is not used, claimed, or renewed; expire
• (of a state or activity) fail to be maintained; come to an end
• cease to follow the rules and practices of a religion or doctrine
• pass gradually into (an inferior state or condition)
• revert to (a previous or more familiar style of speaking or behaviour)
• To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses.
• 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.
• 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.
• To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
• To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.
• To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.
• pass into a specified state or condition
• end, at least for a long time
• drop to a lower level, as in one\'s morals or standards
• go back to bad behavior
• pass by
• drop in standard
NOUN:
• a brief or temporary failure of concentration, memory, or judgement
• a decline from previously high standards
• the termination of a right or privilege through disuse or failure to follow appropriate procedures.
• an interval or passage of time
• temporary drop in a standard
• A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
• A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
• 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.
• A fall or apostasy.
• a mistake resulting from inattention
• a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
• a failure to maintain a higher state
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fall from a previous standard

Words related to LAPSE

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Words that contain LAPSE

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How to use LAPSE in a sentence

• After the lapse of four years, Gregoire, first of the younger children, flew away.
• The face and form are much more round and full, and the old placid expression has been undisturbed in the lapse of years.
• After the lapse of a few minutes their attention was attracted by a sound outside in the grounds.
• The close relation of the elements of the instruction card affords a field for attention to lapse, and be recalled in the new elements that are constantly made apparent.
• He believed as he drew his breath and as his heart beat, involuntarily and without any lapse.
• Here, his head resting on his arm, he sits by a granite block, through which, in the lapse of time, his red beard has grown.
• After the removal of Charles the Fat there came a lapse of seventy-four years.
• After no very long lapse of time, the result of this combination of circumstances declared itself.
• It is interesting to note, however, an occasional lapse even in Aristotle.
• I was well received in English society when, after a lapse of several years and a change of fortune, I returned to it.
• Inactivity of the vocal organs will not cure it, or perhaps not till after the lapse of years.
• I must ask you to suppose a lapse of some time after the occurrence of the events that I have just been relating.
• She now grows her own opium, vainly dreaming that, if the Indian supply lapse, she can then deal with this rapidly growing evil.
• After a certain lapse of time this teaching is corrupted and lost, and is not restored till a new Buddha appears.
• As I passed underneath this simple but solemn monitor, I was reminded of the lapse of time, the uncertainty of life, and sure approach of eternity.
• He never said don’t accept Him until after the lapse of 1000 years.
• After the lapse of three weeks Cleary received the sad news that Sam had shown unmistakable signs of insanity and had been removed to an insane asylum.
• I was pleased to find that the lapse of years had made so little difference in my personal appearance.
• I distinctly recall, even at this lapse of time, some of the incidents he related.
• After the body was securely wrapped, a picture was sometimes painted over the face, and now, after the lapse of centuries, some of these are very clear and distinct.
• She sat up in bed, angrily wrestling with her own lapse from hope.
• As you draw on this pipe and take long draughts you lapse into a strange state, all your ills seem to vanish, and you become indifferent to the world.
• A thousand times after the war, he declared that this dread lapse had occurred.
• Now and then he has a lapse into sheer savagery, and then there is no controlling him.
• And after such a lapse of time the task would be next to impossible.
• Scarcely less vivid is the impression after a lapse of sixteen years, than when this eloquent speech was made.
• Asquith, and Joseph Chamberlain, all forgave him, and even sought to find excuses for his inexplicable lapse.

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