Words Like LAPSE

We have put together a list of words that are similar to LAPSE.

28 Alternative Words Similar to lapse

1 Break Noun      Synonym Words Like Break
2 Error Noun      Synonym Words Like Error
3 Failure Noun      Synonym Words Like Failure
4 Fault Noun      Synonym Words Like Fault
5 Intermission Noun      Synonym Words Like Intermission
6 Interruption Noun      Synonym Words Like Interruption
7 Mistake Noun      Synonym Words Like Mistake
8 Pause Noun      Synonym Words Like Pause
9 Suspension Noun      Synonym Words Like Suspension
10 Sink Verb      Synonym Words Like Sink
11 Pass Verb      Synonym Words Like Pass
12 Elapse Verb      Synonym Words Like Elapse
13 Advance Verb      Synonym Words Like Advance
14 Cease Verb      Synonym Words Like Cease
15 End Verb      Synonym Words Like End
16 Finish Verb      Synonym Words Like Finish
17 Forfeit Verb      Synonym Words Like Forfeit
18 Move Verb      Synonym Words Like Move
19 Progress Verb      Synonym Words Like Progress
20 Return Verb      Synonym Words Like Return
21 Slip Verb      Synonym Words Like Slip
22 Stop Verb      Synonym Words Like Stop
23 Terminate Verb      Synonym Words Like Terminate
24 Glide Verb-intransitive      Synonym Words Like Glide
25 Fall Verb-intransitive      Synonym Words Like Fall
26 Recidivism Noun      Hyponym
27 Fly Verb      Hyponym Words Like Fly
28 Vanish Verb      Hyponym Words Like Vanish

10 definitions of lapse

1 A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
2 A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
3 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.
4 A fall or apostasy.
5 To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses.
6 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.
7 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.
8 To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
9 To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.
10 To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.
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