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Interlapse :: Interlapse (n.) The lapse or interval of time between two events.

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.

Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.

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

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

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..

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

Recadency :: Recadency (n.) A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.

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

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

Irrelapsable :: Irrelapsable (a.) Not liable to relapse; secure.

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

Progression :: Progression (n.) Course; passage; lapse or process of time.

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

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

Backset :: Backset (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.

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..

Relapse :: Relapse (v.) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back..

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..

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..

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