Lapses is valid Scrabble Word

Is lapses a scrabble word?
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Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
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6 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for LAPSES in dictionary:

VERB:

LAPSE, 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)

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

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to fall from a previous standard

Words related to LAPSES

lapse7 lapsed9 lapsing10

Words that contain LAPSES

elapses9 delapses11 illapses10 relapses10 collapses13 prolapses13

How to use LAPSES in a sentence

A month would cover all the tale, but there are lapses.
They could not forget that in spite of his numerous lapses from respectability he was still a Mershone.
That piece of road between Pervyse and the Belgian farm was the scene of one of the very few lapses of the Germans into humanity.
Certain wild shots and disastrous lapses in his recent botanical examination, that he had managed to keep out of his mind hitherto, forced their way on his attention.
Poor Rose! she wept over her lapses when sober, and made fair promises for the future, but I did not dare to trust her, so we parted.
It was evidently written after the event, and there are some lapses.
In this rash and headlong career he has of course many lapses and failures.
Over the year I was with The Herald, there were a few lapses where there would be direct influence from commercial interests to have articles in their favour.
Figures cannot enable us to appreciate these enormous lapses of time.
Finally, when the growth of population has made land so dear that common laborers in freedom cannot save enough to buy farms, the occasion for slavery and serfdom lapses.

We could write a page of their possible mistakes! The cure for these lapses is to insist on the tunes being sung before being written.
A disinterested and pure intention is a light that guides as well as cheers, and renders desperate lapses impossible.
His lapses in taste are not numerous, and are, after all, less offensive than those of European letters today, after the coming of sin with the law.
His sudden lapses into thought, however, created the impression in the minds of some of his listeners that he was laboring under suppressed excitement.
His little lapses of selfishness on their sand island no doubt came from ignorance of what was expected of him.
Altogether, no one could doubt the reality of her inspiration, though the lapses were notable.
He was probably more temperate than most of his companions, and could be accused of fewer lapses from strict morality than, for example, the excellent but thoughtless Steele.
Animals are capable of measuring lapses of time in which they are particularly interested.
Roma, face downward, heard these sounds in the lapses of a terrible memory.
He had actually forgotten the missing keys! Such lapses are common to the criminal.
A high standard of intelligence is required, and lapses are not overlooked.
But blessed lapses of consciousness now and then relieved their agony.
This extremely low rate has been due to the large number of lapses.
In such unions the per capita cost of the death benefit is not lowered by lapses to any appreciable extent.
These lapses Wesley patiently overlooked, and went on with his general instructions.
Should the girl die before you, or unmarried, the money lapses to your nephew, my son, Walter Clifford.
Among New Testament saints similar lapses are observable.
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
Even an American man has his lapses into unreasonableness.

Similar words containing LAPSE without suffix s

lapse7 elapse8 lapsed9 lapser8 delapse10 elapsed10 elapses9 illapse9 lapsers9 relapse9 collapse12 delapsed12 delapses11 illapsed11 illapses10 prolapse12 relapsed11 relapser10 relapses10 collapsed14 collapses13 prolapsed14 prolapses13 relapsers11

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