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Failing :: Failing (n.) A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing..

Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.

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..

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

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

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

Collapsed :: Collapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Collaps.

Algidity :: Algidity (n.) coldness and collapse.

Lapse :: Lapse (n.) The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege..

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.

Hypostrophe :: Hypostrophe (n.) A relapse, or return of a disease..

Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses..

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

Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses..

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

Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack..

Collapse :: Collapse (n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance..

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

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