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lapse English

Meaning lapse meaning

What does lapse mean?
Definitions in simple English

lapse Noun

— A lapse is an error or a failure made because of a carelessness.

lapse Verb

— If you lapse, you make one or more mistakes because of a carelessness. — If you lapse, you start to make your bad habits that you avoided before.

lapse

— noun (= oversight) a mistake resulting from inattention — noun a break or intermission in the occurrence of something a lapse of three weeks between letters — verb end, at least for a long time The correspondence lapsed — verb drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards — verb (= recidivate) go back to bad behavior Those who recidivate are often minor criminals — noun (= backsliding) a failure to maintain a higher state — verb (= sink, pass) pass into a specified state or condition He sank into nirvana — verb let slip He lapsed his membership — verb (= elapse, pass) pass by three years elapsed

Synonyms lapse synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as lapse?

lapse English » English

mistake pass error slip fault gaffe fall blunder sink relapse failure expire expiration slip away oversight lapsing interval go by gap flaw elapse break backsliding termination slip by slide by reverting reversion retrogress relapsing regress recidivate prescribe passing away passing pass away goof go along glide by fall back end bungle backslide annihilation abatement write too much want waive vanish unmake

Conjugation lapse conjugation

How do you conjugate lapse?

lapse · verb

Examples lapse examples

How do I use lapse in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Whether he ran without looking or not, my lapse could have cost him his life.
Your little misfortune which no lapse of time can mediate.
No lapse of time, Mrs. Philips.
We've been handling this insurance for Mr. Dietrichson for three years and we'd hate to see the policies lapse.
As I was saying, we'd hate to see the policies lapse. Of course, we give them 30 days.
In these acts of killing, did you ever have a lapse of memory like when you killed Barney Quill?
Ever have a memory lapse during battle?
The chronometer shows a lapse of nearly two hours.
The lapse time is 13 plus 10.
I let the insurance lapse.
Temporary lapse of memory.
Because the lapse of time, the relaxation of sleep, the provision of food, all these things will give them a false sense of security.
Many of these people will probably lapse into a state of permanent neurosis because they will totally outnumber the psychiatric services needed to cure them.
Well, Clapper, lapse the policy.
We've been handling this insurance for Mr. Dietrichson for three years. and we'd hate to see the policies lapse.
As I was saying, we'd hate to see the policies lapse.
For all he knows, he may have committed the atrocious crime during some dreadful lapse of sanity.
And she's had a moral lapse.
I'm suggesting that maybe you did have a lapse.
A momentary lapse, no doubt.
Her lapse into catatonia did not occur for 20 minutes. - She is recovering now.
But one thing that is obvious is that I suffered a memory lapse, during which time I bruised my arm. It is causing me some irritation.
A lapse of judgment.
Time lapse since death, conceding the cooling rate of the body to be approximately one degree per hour and taking into account surrounding temperature and moisture, 12 hours.
You were Hugh Sloan's bookkeeper when he worked for Maurice Stans at Finance. and we were just wondering if you were. promoted to work for Mr. Stans immediately after Mr. Sloan quit. or whether there was some time lapse?
If you lapse in French or Italian, nobody notices.
Well.. just an impulse.. a momentary lapse of reason.
Lapse of memory.
But one thing that is obvious is that I suffered a memory lapse, during which time I bruised my arm.
While you do not differ a bit from those who consider me an investment all those who want to be satisfied by me whose demands I have to meet who try to placate the lapse of time by craving success who always get under my feet.
She had given me my manumission in that brief, sly lapse of hers.
Your substitution of the temporal limiter for the time lapse compressor.
But I have it recorded on time-lapse camera.
A momentary lapse.

News and current affairs

The main lapse in TFP growth in Europe over the past decade has been in services (excluding information and communications technologies).
But the disarmament and non-proliferation agenda is too important to let the CD lapse into irrelevancy as states consider other negotiating arenas.
But this is a wrong conclusion, which illustrates a lapse of logic.
Ricardo's orthodox followers took no notice of it, assuming it to be a rare lapse by the Master.
His apparent ethical lapse is magnified by the fact that, at this very moment, Russia is threatening to cut off Ukraine's gas supplies if that country does not give in to the pricing demands of Kremlin's state-owned gas behemoth, Gazprom.
Roger Caillois (1913-1978) ironically mocked such thinking: If I forget my umbrella at X's house, it is because I feel a subconscious sympathy for X. My lapse was only apparent.
But the murderous events of the past have left scars that a brief, unsustainable lapse of prosperity was unable to make disappear.
That lapse cannot be undone.
Far worse for Europe would be to avoid serious reform and lapse into egalitarian and genteel decline.
There is a strong sentiment that academics and institutions that collaborated with such an odious regime - often with the encouragement of their governments, no doubt - suffered a grave lapse of judgment.
Elsewhere it is probably best to include in the laws of countries and the statutes of organizations a clause that makes affirmative action lapse after five years, or at most ten.
The likelier outcome is that a victorious Putin would have many friends in Europe, and that the sanctions on Russia would be allowed to lapse.

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