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General dictionaries General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. lapse: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. lapse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. lapse: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. lapse: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. lapse: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. lapse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. lapse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. lapse: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. lapse: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. lapse: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. lapse: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. lapse: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. Lapse (law), Lapse, The Lapse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. lapse: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  15. Lapse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. lapse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  17. lapse: Rhymezone [home, info]
  18. lapse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  19. lapse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  20. Lapse: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  21. lapse: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  22. lapse: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  23. lapse: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  24. lapse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  25. lapse: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lapse: Linguistic Glossary [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lapse: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
  2. lapse: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
  3. lapse: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
  4. lapse: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
  5. lapse: INVESTORWORDS [home, info]
  6. lapse: Finance-Glossary.com [home, info]
  7. LAPSE: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  8. Lapse: Investopedia [home, info]
  9. lapse: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  10. lapse: Financial dictionary [home, info]
  11. Lapse: Yahoo Tax Center Glossary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LAPSE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
  2. lapse: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LAPSE, lapse: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  2. -lapse, lapse: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lapse: Sound-Alike Words [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lapse: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (lapse)

noun:  a break or intermission in the occurrence of something ("A lapse of three weeks between letters")
noun:  a failure to maintain a higher state
noun:  a mistake resulting from inattention
verb:  let slip ("He lapsed his membership")
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:  pass by ("Three years elapsed")
verb:  go back to bad behavior
verb:  pass into a specified state or condition

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Phrases that include lapse:   lapse rate, dry adiabatic lapse rate, adiabatic lapse rate, lapse and anti lapse, environmental lapse rate, more...

Words similar to lapse:   backslide, oversight, backsliding, elapse, lapsed, lapser, lapsing, pass, recidivate, recidivism, regress, relapse, relapsing, retrogress, reversion, reverting, sink, slip, error, failing, more...


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