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[ verb ] go back to bad behavior
Synonyms Examples "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals" Used in print (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)The fruit is then cooled to 42 ` F. , a temperature at which it lapses into a sort_of dormant state . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a failure to maintain a higher state
Used in print (Doris Miles Disney, Mrs. Meeker's Money....)`` Mr._Hohlbein and I have noticed some lapses since , though . Related terms |
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[ verb ] drop to a lower level; as in one's morals or standards
Synonyms Used in print (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)The content of his words may lapse back into monotonous repetition , as if a phonograph_needle were stuck in one groove ; only seldom is it so simple as to be a matter of his obviously parroting some timeworn axiom , common to our culture , which he has evidently heard , over_and_over , from a parent until he experiences it as part of him . Related terms |
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[ verb ] end, at least for a long time
Examples "The correspondence lapsed" Used in print (Kenneth Scott Latourette, Christianity in a Revolutiona...)Many_of them had once been members of a church or at_least had been given instruction in Christianity but for one or another reason had allowed the connexion to lapse . |
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[ verb ] pass into a specified state or condition
Examples : "He sank into Nirvana" Used in print (Cordwainer Smith, "A Planet Named Shayol,"...)Having arrived he blinked sleepily and friendlily at them , and lapsed back into the restful stupor from which he had emerged . |
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