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lapse
lapsea temporary deviation; a slip or error: a lapse of judgment; discontinuance due to a late payment: She let her insurance lapse.
Not to be confused with:laps – more than one lap: She swam five laps in the pool. My cat sits in the laps of all of my guests whether they like her or not.lapse L0049100 (lăps)v. lapsed, laps·ing, laps·es v.intr.1. a. To fall from a previous level or standard, as of accomplishment, quality, or conduct: lapse into bad habits; a team that lapsed into mediocrity halfway through the season.b. To deviate from a prescribed or accepted way: lapse into heresy.c. To pass gradually or smoothly; slip: lapse into reverie.2. a. To come to an end, especially gradually or temporarily: He realized that his attention had lapsed and he hadn't heard the assignment.b. To be no longer valid or active; expire: She allowed her membership to lapse after the first year.3. Law To cease to be available as a result of expiration, disuse, or impossibility. Used of a right or privilege.4. To go by; elapse: Years had lapsed since we last met.v.tr. To allow to lapse.n.1. The act or an instance of lapsing, as:a. A usually minor or temporary failure; a slip: a lapse of memory; a lapse in judgment.b. A deterioration or decline: a lapse into barbarism.c. A moral fall: a lapse from grace.2. A break in continuity; a pause: a lapse in the conversation.3. A period of time; an interval: a lapse of several years between the two revolutions.4. Law The termination of a right or privilege as a result of expiration, disuse, or impossibility.
[Middle English lapsen, to deviate from the normal, from laps, lapse of time, sin (from Old French, lapse of time, from Latin lāpsus, from past participle of lābī, to lapse) and from Latin lāpsāre, frequentative of lābī.]
laps′er n.lapse (læps) n1. a drop in standard of an isolated or temporary nature: a lapse of justice. 2. a break in occurrence, usage, etc: a lapse of five weeks between letters. 3. a gradual decline or a drop to a lower degree, condition, or state: a lapse from high office. 4. a moral fall5. (Law) law the termination of some right, interest, or privilege, as by neglecting to exercise it or through failure of some contingency6. (Insurance) insurance the termination of coverage following a failure to pay the premiumsvb (intr) 7. to drop in standard or fail to maintain a norm8. to decline gradually or fall in status, condition, etc9. to be discontinued, esp through negligence or other failure10. (usually foll by into) to drift or slide (into a condition): to lapse into sleep. 11. (often foll by from) to turn away (from beliefs or norms)12. (Law) law (of a devise or bequest) to become void, as on the beneficiary's predeceasing the testator13. (of time) to slip away[C15: from Latin lāpsus error, from lābī to glide] ˈlapsable, ˈlapsible adj lapsed adj ˈlapser nlapse (læps)
n., v. lapsed, laps•ing. n. 1. an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state: a lapse of justice. 2. a slip or error, often of a trivial sort: a lapse of memory. 3. an interval or passage of time; elapsed period. 4. a moral fall, as from rectitude or virtue. 5. a fall or decline to a lower grade, condition, or degree: a lapse into savagery. 6. the act of falling, slipping, sliding, etc., slowly or by degrees. 7. a falling into disuse. 8. termination of an insurance policy, due to nonpayment of a premium. 9. Law. the termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it or through failure of some contingency. 10. lapse rate. 11. Archaic. a gentle, downward flow, as of water. v.i. 12. to fall or deviate from a previous standard; fail to maintain a normative level. 13. to come to an end; stop: We let our subscription lapse. 14. to fall, slip, or sink; subside: to lapse into silence. 15. to fall into disuse: The custom lapsed after many years. 16. to deviate or abandon principles, beliefs, etc.: to lapse into heresy. 17. to fall spiritually, as an apostate. 18. to pass away, as time; elapse. 19. (of an insurance policy) to cease being in force; terminate. 20. Law. to become void, as a legacy to someone who dies before the testator. [1520–30; < Latin lāpsus an error, slipping =lāb(ī) to slip, err + -sus, for -tus suffix of v. action] laps′a•ble, laps′i•ble, adj. lapse
Past participle: lapsed
Gerund: lapsing
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| I lapse | | you lapse | | he/she/it lapses | | we lapse | | you lapse | | they lapse |
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| I lapsed | | you lapsed | | he/she/it lapsed | | we lapsed | | you lapsed | | they lapsed |
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| I am lapsing | | you are lapsing | | he/she/it is lapsing | | we are lapsing | | you are lapsing | | they are lapsing |
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| I have lapsed | | you have lapsed | | he/she/it has lapsed | | we have lapsed | | you have lapsed | | they have lapsed |
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| I was lapsing | | you were lapsing | | he/she/it was lapsing | | we were lapsing | | you were lapsing | | they were lapsing |
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| I had lapsed | | you had lapsed | | he/she/it had lapsed | | we had lapsed | | you had lapsed | | they had lapsed |
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| I will lapse | | you will lapse | | he/she/it will lapse | | we will lapse | | you will lapse | | they will lapse |
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| I will have lapsed | | you will have lapsed | | he/she/it will have lapsed | | we will have lapsed | | you will have lapsed | | they will have lapsed |
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| I will be lapsing | | you will be lapsing | | he/she/it will be lapsing | | we will be lapsing | | you will be lapsing | | they will be lapsing |
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| I have been lapsing | | you have been lapsing | | he/she/it has been lapsing | | we have been lapsing | | you have been lapsing | | they have been lapsing |
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| I will have been lapsing | | you will have been lapsing | | he/she/it will have been lapsing | | we will have been lapsing | | you will have been lapsing | | they will have been lapsing |
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| I had been lapsing | | you had been lapsing | | he/she/it had been lapsing | | we had been lapsing | | you had been lapsing | | they had been lapsing |
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| I would lapse | | you would lapse | | he/she/it would lapse | | we would lapse | | you would lapse | | they would lapse |
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| I would have lapsed | | you would have lapsed | | he/she/it would have lapsed | | we would have lapsed | | you would have lapsed | | they would have lapsed |
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | lapse - a mistake resulting from inattentionoversighterror, fault, mistake - a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" | | 2. | lapse - a break or intermission in the occurrence of something; "a lapse of three weeks between letters"pause, suspension, intermission, interruption, break - a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | | 3. |  lapse - a failure to maintain a higher statebacksliding, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reverting, reversionfailure - an act that fails; "his failure to pass the test"recidivism - habitual relapse into crime | | Verb | 1. | lapse - pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into nirvana"sink, passmove - go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy" | | 2. | lapse - end, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed"end, cease, terminate, finish, stop - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "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" | | 3. | lapse - drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standardsbackslidedrop away, fall away, slip, drop off - get worse; "My grades are slipping" | | 4. | lapse - go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"recidivate, relapse, retrogress, regress, fall backretrovert, revert, turn back, regress, return - go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules" | | 5. | lapse - let slip; "He lapsed his membership"forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo, forego - lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property" | | 6. | lapse - pass by; "three years elapsed"elapse, glide by, go by, slide by, slip by, slip away, go along, passadvance, march on, move on, progress, pass on, go on - move forward, also in the metaphorical sense; "Time marches on"fell, vanish, fly - pass away rapidly; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him" |
lapsenoun1. decline, fall, drop, descent, deterioration, relapse, backsliding His behaviour showed neither decency or dignity. It was an uncommon lapse.2. mistake, failing, fault, failure, error, slip, negligence, omission, oversight, indiscretion The incident was being seen as a serious security lapse.3. interval, break, gap, passage, pause, interruption, lull, breathing space, intermission a time lapse between receipt of new information and its publicationverb1. slip, fall, decline, sink, drop, slide, deteriorate, degenerate Teenagers occasionally find it all too much to cope with and lapse into bad behaviour.2. end, stop, run out, expire, terminate, become obsolete, become void Her membership of the Labour Party has lapsed.lapseverb1. To slip from a higher or better condition to a former, usually lower or poorer one:backslide, regress, relapse, retrogress, revert.2. To become or cause to become less active or intense:abate, bate, die (away, down, off, or out), ease (off or up), ebb, fall, fall off, let up, moderate, remit, slacken, slack off, subside, wane.3. To move smoothly, continuously, and effortlessly:glide, glissade, slide, slip, slither.4. To become void, especially through passage of time or an omission:expire, run out.5. To move past in time:elapse, go (by), pass.noun1. A minor mistake:slip, slip-up.Informal: fluff.2. An act or thought that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true:erratum, error, inaccuracy, incorrectness, miscue, misstep, mistake, slip, slip-up, trip.3. A slipping from a higher or better condition to a lower or poorer one:backslide, backsliding, recidivation, recidivism, relapse.Translationslapse (lӕps) verb1. to cease to exist, often because of lack of effort. His insurance policy had lapsed and was not renewed. 終止 终止2. to slip, fall, be reduced. As he could think of nothing more to say, he lapsed into silence; I'm afraid our standards of tidiness have lapsed. 下降，滑落，陷入 陷入 noun1. a mistake or failure (in behaviour, memory etc). a lapse of memory. 失誤 失误2. a passing away (of time). I saw him again after a lapse of five years. 流逝 流逝lapse
lapse from grace1. noun An instance in which acts or lives immorally, thus causing them to fall out of favor with God. My pastor said God will always forgive a lapse from grace if you truly repent.2. noun An instance in which one does something that tarnishes one's reputation, causing one to fall out of favor with someone, such as the public. That actor had a catastrophic lapse from grace after his racially-charged tirade on social media. After my lapse from grace with my previous employers, I decided to set out on my own and begin my own company.3. verb To fall out of favor with God or the church, typically due to acting or living immorally. Many a virtuous man and woman to lapse from grace in the pursuit of wealth and material success. The archbishop lashed out at priests who have lapsed from grace and besmirched the dignity of the church.4. verb To fall out of favor, typically due to having done something that tarnishes one's reputation. Once an icon of the pop-music world, the singer lapsed from grace following a string of run-ins with the police.See also: grace, lapselapse into (something)To fall into some state or condition. John lapsed into a severe depression after being fired from his job. She survived the emergency surgery, but lapsed into a coma shortly thereafter.See also: lapselapse from grace 1. Lit. to fall out of favor with God. The child was told that if he ever smoked even one cigarette, he would lapse from grace for certain. It is easy, these days, to lapse from grace. 2. Fig. to fall out of favor. Ted lapsed from grace when he left the lobby door unlocked all weekend. I have to be there on time every day or I will lapse from grace for sure.See also: grace, lapselapse into somethingto weaken or slip into something, especially a coma. The survivor of the crash lapsed into a coma. Aunt Mary lapsed into unconsciousness and died.See also: lapselapse
lapse Law the termination of some right, interest, or privilege, as by neglecting to exercise it or through failure of some contingency LAPSE (language)A single assignment language for the Manchester dataflow machine.
["A Single Assignment Language for Data Flow Computing",J.R.W. Glauert, M.Sc Diss, Victoria U Manchester, 1978].lapse
lapse Health insurance Termination of coverage due to nonpayment within a specified time periodlapse
Related to lapse: lapse rateLapseThe termination or failure of a right or privilege because of a neglect to exercise that right or to perform some duty within a time limit, or because a specified contingency did not occur. The expiration of coverage under an insurance policy because of the insured's failure to pay the premium. The common-law principle that a gift in a will does not take effect but passes into the estate remaining after the payment of debts and particular gifts, if the beneficiary is alive when the will is executed but subsequently predeceases the testator. In its broadest sense, the term lapse describes the loss of any right or privilege because of the passage of time or the occurrence or nonoccurrence of a certain event. It is often used by legislatures in reference to governmental concerns. Legislatures may include anti-lapse provisions in statutes to ensure that certain spending programs remain funded from year to year. Lapse also has distinct significance in the law of insurance contracts and wills. An insurance policy can lapse, or become void, if the insured fails to make payments on it. All states give insureds a grace period, which allows extra time to make a payment owed under a policy. The grace period varies from policy to policy. For example, in Maine the grace period is seven days for Health Insurance policies with weekly premiums, ten days for such policies with monthly premiums, and thirty-one days for all other such policies (Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 24-A, § 2707). The grace period in Maine is thirty days for life insurance policies (§ 2505). Some statutes on insurance policy lapses provide a small measure of protection against lapse. For example, Maine Revised Statutes Annotated, title 24-A, section 2739 (West 1995), states that no insurance company may cancel a health insurance policy within three months of nonpayment unless the insurer provides the insured with a notice of potential lapse within ten to forty-five days after the premium was due. Section 4751 provides that in the event of a strike by insurance agents, no life or noncancellable health, hospital expense, or hospital and surgical expense insurance policy may lapse owing to nonpayment within thirty days of the strike's inception. This law applies only if the agent is responsible for the collection of premiums and is represented in Collective Bargaining by a labor organization that has been recognized by the state. A will is a document left by a deceased person, who is called a testator or devisor. A will allocates the property of a testator to living persons. If the intended recipient of a gift in a will (called a beneficiary or devisee) dies before the testator, the gift may lapse. This means that the gift is void and is placed back into the estate of the testator. The property becomes part of the residuum of the estate and may not be disposed of in the manner sought by the testator. Almost all states have statutes that provide that in the event of a lapse, the gift should go to the issue, or lineal descendants, of the deceased devisee. If the beneficiary has no issue, then the gift is left in the estate of the testator. In some states the anti-lapse statute applies only to grandparents of the testator and lineal descendants of the testator's grandparents. For example, under the Maine Revised Statutes Annotated, title 18-A, section 2-605 (West 1995), the issue of the deceased devisee may receive a gift intended for the deceased devisee, but only if they survived the testator by 120 hours. lapse1) v. to fail to occur, particularly a gift made in a will. 2) v. to become non-operative. 3) n. the termination of a gift made by will or for future distribution from a trust, caused by the death of the person to whom the gift was intended (the beneficiary, legatee, devisee) prior to the death of the person making the will or creating the trust (the testator, trustor or settlor). (See: will, trust, beneficiary, legatee, devisee) lapse the termination of some right, interest, or privilege, as by neglecting to exercise it or through failure of some contingency.LAPSE, eccl. law. The transfer, by forfeiture, of a right or power to present or collate to a vacant benefice, from, a person vested with such right, to another, in consequence of some act of negligence of the former. Ayl. Parerg. 331. Lapse
LapseThe termination of a right or privilege due to inaction. In insurance, lapses occur on a policy if the policyholder fails to pay premiums. In this case, the right to receive the benefit lapses. In options, the contract lapses if the option is not exercised on or by the expiration date. In this case, the right to buy or sell the underlying asset lapses.Lapse.A lapse causes a policy, right, or privilege to end because the person or institution that would benefit fails to live up to its terms or meet its conditions. For example, if you have a subscription right to buy additional shares of a stock at a price below the public offering price, you must generally act before a certain date. If that date passes, your right is said to lapse. Similarly, if you have a life insurance policy that requires you to pay annual premiums, the policy will lapse if you fail to pay the premiums in time. lapse
Related to lapse: lapse rateSynonyms for lapsenoun declineSynonyms- decline
- fall
- drop
- descent
- deterioration
- relapse
- backsliding
noun mistakeSynonyms- mistake
- failing
- fault
- failure
- error
- slip
- negligence
- omission
- oversight
- indiscretion
noun intervalSynonyms- interval
- break
- gap
- passage
- pause
- interruption
- lull
- breathing space
- intermission
verb slipSynonyms- slip
- fall
- decline
- sink
- drop
- slide
- deteriorate
- degenerate
verb endSynonyms- end
- stop
- run out
- expire
- terminate
- become obsolete
- become void
Synonyms for lapseverb to slip from a higher or better condition to a former, usually lower or poorer oneSynonyms- backslide
- regress
- relapse
- retrogress
- revert
verb to become or cause to become less active or intenseSynonyms- abate
- bate
- die
- ease
- ebb
- fall
- fall off
- let up
- moderate
- remit
- slacken
- slack off
- subside
- wane
verb to move smoothly, continuously, and effortlesslySynonyms- glide
- glissade
- slide
- slip
- slither
verb to become void, especially through passage of time or an omissionSynonymsverb to move past in timeSynonymsnoun a minor mistakeSynonymsnoun an act or thought that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or trueSynonyms- erratum
- error
- inaccuracy
- incorrectness
- miscue
- misstep
- mistake
- slip
- slip-up
- trip
noun a slipping from a higher or better condition to a lower or poorer oneSynonyms- backslide
- backsliding
- recidivation
- recidivism
- relapse
Synonyms for lapsenoun a mistake resulting from inattentionSynonymsRelated Wordsnoun a break or intermission in the occurrence of somethingRelated Words- pause
- suspension
- intermission
- interruption
- break
noun a failure to maintain a higher stateSynonyms- backsliding
- lapsing
- relapse
- relapsing
- reverting
- reversion
Related Wordsverb pass into a specified state or conditionSynonymsRelated Wordsverb end, at least for a long timeRelated Words- end
- cease
- terminate
- finish
- stop
verb drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standardsSynonymsRelated Words- drop away
- fall away
- slip
- drop off
verb go back to bad behaviorSynonyms- recidivate
- relapse
- retrogress
- regress
- fall back
Related Words- retrovert
- revert
- turn back
- regress
- return
verb let slipRelated Words- forfeit
- give up
- throw overboard
- waive
- forgo
- forego
verb pass bySynonyms- elapse
- glide by
- go by
- slide by
- slip by
- slip away
- go along
- pass
Related Words- advance
- march on
- move on
- progress
- pass on
- go on
- fell
- vanish
- fly
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