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lapse

a break or intermission in the occurrence of something; "a lapse of three weeks between letters"

drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards

end, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed"

let slip; "He lapsed his membership"

Synonyms:

• abeyance,
• about-face,
• advance,
• alchemy,
• apostasy,
• apostatize,
• assimilation,
• assumption,
• atavism,
• atheism,
• atrocity,
• backing,
• backset,
• backslide,
• backsliding,
• backward deviation,
• backward motion,
• backward step,
• balk,
• be all over,
• be caught napping,
• be gone,
• be neglectful,
• be negligent,
• be no more,
• be past,
• become extinct,
• become void,
• becoming,
• bevue,
• blooper,
• blow over,
• blunder,
• boner,
• breach,
• break,
• bull,
• bungle,
• cadence,
• caesura,
• catabasis,
• catenary,
• cave,
• cave in,
• cease,
• cease-fire,
• cessation,
• change,
• change-over,
• close,
• closing,
• cock,
• collapse,
• comedown,
• continue,
• conversion,
• crash,
• crime,
• crime against humanity,
• culpa,
• culpable negligence,
• day off,
• deadly sin,
• debasement,
• decadence,
• decadency,
• deceleration,
• declension,
• declination,
• decline,
• decline and fall,
• decrescendo,
• decurrence,
• default,
• deformation,
• degeneracy,
• degenerate,
• degenerateness,
• degeneration,
• degradation,
• delinquency,
• demotion,
• depravation,
• depravedness,
• depreciation,
• dereliction,
• derogation,
• descend,
• descent,
• desertion,
• deteriorate,
• deterioration,
• deviate,
• devolution,
• die,
• die away,
• diminish,
• diminuendo,
• diminution,
• disappear,
• disenchantment,
• disregard,
• dive,
• downtrend,
• downturn,
• downward mobility,
• downward trend,
• droop,
• drop,
• dwindling,
• dying,
• ebb,
• effeteness,
• elapse,
• end,
• endure,
• enormity,
• err,
• error,
• evil,
• expire,
• fade,
• fading,
• fail,
• failing,
• failure,
• failure of nerve,
• fall,
• fall again into,
• fall astern,
• fall away,
• fall back,
• fall behind,
• fall from grace,
• fall into error,
• fall off,
• falling back,
• falling-off,
• false move,
• false step,
• fault,
• felony,
• flip-flop,
• flit,
• flop,
• flop down,
• flow,
• flow on,
• fluff,
• flump,
• flump down,
• fly,
• foible,
• founder,
• frailty,
• gap,
• genocide,
• get behind,
• give way,
• glide,
• gloss over,
• go amiss,
• go astray,
• go awry,
• go backwards,
• go behind,
• go by,
• go down,
• go downhill,
• go off,
• go on,
• go out,
• go wrong,
• goof,
• growth,
• guilty act,
• have a relapse,
• have it,
• have its time,
• have run out,
• heavy sin,
• hesitation,
• hiatus,
• hit a slump,
• hit rock bottom,
• hit the skids,
• hold-up,
• holiday,
• homestretch,
• ignore,
• impiety,
• impiousness,
• impropriety,
• inadvertence,
• inadvertency,
• inattention,
• indiscretion,
• inexpiable sin,
• iniquity,
• injury,
• injustice,
• interim,
• interlude,
• intermezzo,
• intermission,
• intermittence,
• interruption,
• interval,
• involution,
• irreligion,
• irreverence,
• jerk back,
• laches,
• lacuna,
• laissez-faire,
• lapse back,
• lapse from grace,
• lapsus calami,
• lapsus linguae,
• last,
• last lap,
• last round,
• last stage,
• laxity,
• laxness,
• layoff,
• let go,
• let ride,
• let slide,
• let slip,
• letup,
• loose thread,
• looseness,
• lose ground,
• lose sight of,
• lose track of,
• loss of tone,
• lower,
• lowering,
• lull,
• malefaction,
• malfeasance,
• malum,
• minor wrong,
• miscalculate,
• miscue,
• misdeed,
• misdemeanor,
• misfeasance,
• misstep,
• mistake,
• mortal sin,
• naturalization,
• neglect,
• neglectfulness,
• negligence,
• nod,
• nonfeasance,
• noninterference,
• nonperformance,
• nonrestriction,
• not care for,
• not get involved,
• not heed,
• not think,
• offense,
• omission,
• outrage,
• overlook,
• overlooking,
• oversight,
• pass,
• pass away,
• pass by,
• pass over,
• passage,
• pause,
• peccadillo,
• peccancy,
• permissiveness,
• plop,
• plop down,
• plump,
• plunge,
• poor stewardship,
• press on,
• proceed,
• procrastination,
• progress,
• pull back,
• re-formation,
• reach the depths,
• reaction,
• recede,
• recess,
• recession,
• recidivate,
• recidivation,
• recidivism,
• reclamation,
• reconversion,
• recreancy,
• recrudescence,
• recur to,
• recurrence,
• reduction,
• reentry,
• refluence,
• reflux,
• regress,
• regression,
• rehabilitation,
• reinstatement,
• relapse,
• remission,
• remissness,
• renewal,
• resolution,
• respite,
• rest,
• restitution,
• restoration,
• retreat,
• retroaction,
• retrocede,
• retrocession,
• retroflex,
• retroflexion,
• retrogradation,
• retrograde,
• retrogress,
• retrogression,
• retroversion,
• retrovert,
• retrusion,
• return,
• return to,
• returning,
• reversal,
• reverse,
• reversion,
• revert,
• revert to,
• reverting,
• revulsion,
• roll on,
• rollback,
• run,
• run down,
• run its course,
• run on,
• run out,
• sag,
• set,
• setback,
• settle,
• settle down,
• shift,
• shortcoming,
• sin,
• sin of commission,
• sin of omission,
• sinful act,
• sink,
• sink back,
• sink down,
• sinkage,
• slackness,
• sleep,
• slide,
• slide back,
• slight,
• slip,
• slip away,
• slip back,
• slip up,
• slippage,
• slipping back,
• slipup,
• slouch,
• slowdown,
• slump,
• slump down,
• stand-down,
• stay,
• sternway,
• stop,
• stray,
• stumble,
• submerge,
• submergence,
• subside,
• subsidence,
• suspension,
• swag,
• switch,
• switch-over,
• take for granted,
• terminate,
• throwback,
• tort,
• touch bottom,
• transformation,
• transgression,
• transit,
• transition,
• trespass,
• trip,
• truce,
• turn,
• turnabout,
• turning into,
• undutifulness,
• unrigorousness,
• unutterable sin,
• vacation,
• venial sin,
• vice,
• violation,
• volte-face,
• wander,
• wane,
• wear away,
• wear off,
• wrong,
• wrong step,
• yield again to