Definitions for lapses

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IPA: /læps/

Lapses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in lapses (aelpss).

Definitions for lapses

noun

1. an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard:
2. a slip or error, often of a trivial sort; failure:
3. an interval or passage of time; elapsed period:
4. a moral fall, as from rectitude or virtue.
5. a fall or decline to a lower grade, condition, or degree; descent; regression:
6. the act of falling, slipping, sliding, etc., slowly or by degrees.
7. a falling into disuse.
8. Insurance. discontinuance of coverage resulting from nonpayment of a premium; termination of a policy.
9. Law. the termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it or through failure of some contingency.
10. Meteorology. lapse rate.
11. Archaic. a gentle, downward flow, as of water.

verb (used without object)

1. to fall or deviate from a previous standard; fail to maintain a normative level:
2. to come to an end; stop:
3. to fall, slip, or sink; subside:
4. to fall into disuse:
5. to deviate or abandon principles, beliefs, etc.:
6. to fall spiritually, as an apostate:
7. to pass away, as time; elapse.
8. Law. to become void, as a legacy to someone who dies before the testator.
9. to cease being in force; terminate:

Origin of lapses

1520-30; Latin lāpsus an error, slipping, failing, equivalent to lāb(ī) to slide, slip, fall, make a mistake + -sus, for -tus suffix of v. action

Examples for lapses

As enraging as these lapses are, they should not come as a surprise.

Perhaps, however, you too have been guilty of these lapses, reader?

Roma, face downward, heard these sounds in the lapses of a terrible memory.

The former has gone so far as to take out ads apologizing for its lapses.

There is nothing vague or disconcerting in his work, no lapses of rhetoric.

All of this has become so familiar that it lapses from our minds, it's just the way things are.

She had felt that, whatever his lapses, the years had made her necessary to him.

I knew my lapses too well and was too considerate of your happiness to say ‘yes.’

If all this were only hypocrisy, Gingrich might legitimately expect voters to shrug off his lapses of decency and humanity.

But when a financial model depends on millions of users, and mere algorithms patrolling the gates, lapses are inevitable.