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Lapse :: Lapse (v. t.) To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.

Lapsed :: Lapsed (a.) Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses..

Prolapse :: Prolapse (v. i.) To fall down or out; to protrude.

Circumduce :: Circumduce (v. t.) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence..

Lapsed :: Lapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Laps.

Relapsed :: Relapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Relaps.

Fall :: Fall (n.) Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels..

Decurrence :: Decurrence (n.) The act of running down; a lapse.

Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses..

Lapsible :: Lapsible (a.) Liable to lapse.

Prolapsion :: Prolapsion (n.) Prolapse.

Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel..

Illapsed :: Illapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Illaps.

Recidivous :: Recidivous (a.) Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.

Cropper :: Cropper (n.) A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse..

Elapsed :: Elapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Elaps.

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed..

Past :: Past (v.) Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences..

Elapse :: Elapse (v. i.) To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time..

Relapsing :: Relapsing (a.) Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.

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