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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..

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

Prolapse :: Prolapse (n.) The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum..

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

Relapse :: Relapse (v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again..

Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) To fall or glide; to pass; -- usually followed by into.

Novatian :: Novatian (n.) One of the sect of Novatius, or Novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful..

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

Lability :: Lability (n.) Liability to lapse, err, or apostatize..

Proctocele :: Proctocele (n.) Inversion and prolapse of the mucous coat of the rectum, from relaxation of the sphincter, with more or less swelling; prolapsus ani..

Relief :: Relief (n.) A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant..

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

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..

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

Senescent :: Senescent (a.) Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.

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

Collapsion :: Collapsion (n.) Collapse.

Lapse :: Lapse (v. t.) To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender..

Weed :: Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed..

Relapser :: Relapser (n.) One who relapses.

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