Usually means: Return to previous unhealthy behavior.
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  1. relapse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. relapse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. relapse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. relapse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. relapse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Relapse, relapse: Wordnik
  7. relapse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. relapse: Wiktionary
  9. relapse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. relapse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. relapse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. relapse: Dictionary.com
  13. relapse (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. relapse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Relapse (EP), Relapse (Eminem album), Relapse (Ministry album), Relapse (disambiguation), Relapse, The Relapse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Relapse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. relapse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. relapse: Rhymezone
  19. relapse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. relapse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. relapse: Free Dictionary
  22. relapse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. relapse: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. relapse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relapse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Relapse: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
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  7. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  8. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  9. relapse: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  10. Multiple Sclerosis Encyclopaedia (No longer online)
  11. Relapse: Glossary of Lymphoma Terms
  12. Relapse: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  13. relapse: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  14. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  15. relapse: Medical dictionary
  16. All About Hepatitis C (No longer online)
  17. Relapse: Drug Medical Dictionary
  18. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. RELAPSE: Acronym Finder
  3. relapse: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See relapsed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.
verb:  (intransitive, medicine, of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated (after a period of improvement).
verb:  (intransitive, informal, specifically) To return to a vice, especially self-harm or alcoholism, failing to maintain abstinence.
verb:  To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.
noun:  The act or situation of relapsing.
noun:  (medicine) An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement
noun:  (obsolete) One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.

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