Definitions for lapsed

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Spelling: [lapst]

IPA: /læpst/

Lapsed is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in lapsed (adelps).

Definitions for lapsed

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.

adjective

1. expired; voided; terminated:
2. no longer committed to or following the tenets of a particular belief, obligation, position, etc.:

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 lapsed

First recorded in 1610-20; lapse + -ed²

Examples for lapsed

At one point, when David was sitting with him, he lapsed into a restless sleep in which he began shouting in French.

For a moment or so Rose, previously so talkative, had lapsed into silence.

As a lapsed Mississippian, one of the most shocking to me regarded his visit with Jefferson Davis down at Davis' home in Biloxi.

Many of the fighting nations have lapsed back into the pre-Jonah era.

Bill grunted his disagreement with the diagnosis, and lapsed into silence.

Eventually, however, she lapsed into a sort of listless immobility.

Evans, 31, whose eyes gleam behind a mess of blonde hair, was a formerly committed Christian whose faith had lapsed.

His continued enthusiasm for his work, when most other people would have long since lapsed into retirement, was remarkable.

Sher lapsed into prayer, imploring Allah to make the executions stop.

Then she became dizzy once more, and lapsed into silent thought.