RELAPSED

Definition: RELAPSED

RELAPSED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Relapse

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "RELAPSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Crosswords: RELAPSED

Specialty definitions using "RELAPSED": Arms of England. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Acute Leukemias: Pharmacokinetics and Management of Relapsed and Refractory Disease (Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Vol. 34) (reference) De Dominis, 1560-1624 : Venetian, Anglican, ecumenist, and relapsed heretic (reference) Georges Bernanos and the Saints: Saint Dominic; Joan, Relapsed and Saint; Brother Martin; The Life of Jesus (American University Studies, Series 2) (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded	Carroll, Lewis	But Mein Herr had relapsed into reverie, and made no further remark.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	All had again relapsed into silence.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Al relapsed into an insulated silence.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Repeat surgical debulking in relapsed patients will probably only benefit a small subset of highly selected patients. (references)
		Patients who have relapsed after primary chemotherapy with platinum can be divided into two groups based on interval to relapse. (references)
		Paclitaxel is currently the most active single agent for treatment of relapsed ovarian cancer even in patients refractory to platinum. (references)
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Ann Richards	Yeah, because we're human and we're slow learners. And sometimes it takes longer for people. I've known a lot of people who relapsed and who had to go back into the hospital or who had to go to another center.
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"RELAPSED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 65.63% of the time. "RELAPSED" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	65.63%	21	76,261
Lexical Verb (past participle)	28.13%	9	117,287
Adjective (general or positive)	6.25%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	32	N/A

Language		Translations for "RELAPSED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		复发 (recur, Recurred, Recurring, relapse, relapsing). (various references)

French		rechutée, rechutâmes, rechutèrent, rechuta. (various references)

German		zurückgefallen (fallen back), fiel zurück. (various references)

Korean		되돌아가�". (various references)

Pig Latin		elapsedray

Spanish		reincidido (lapsed). (various references)

Welsh		atglaf. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"RELAPSED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reclassed, relaised, relaps, relosed. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "RELAPSED" (pronounced rēla"pst)
5	-l a" p s t	collapsed, elapsed, lapsed.
3	-p s t	eclipsed, glimpsed.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: pleaders, repleads.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: dealers, elapsed, leaders, leapers, pearled, pedlars, pedlers, pleader, pleased, pleaser, presale, relapse, repeals, replead, respade, sepaled, speared.
	-2 letters: alders, asleep, dealer, drapes, elapse, elders, erased, laders, lapsed, lapser, larees, leader, leaped, leaper, leased, leaser, lepers, padles, padres, pardee, parled, parles, parsed, pealed, pearls, pedals, pedlar, pedler, pesade, pleads, please, rasped, reales, reaped.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-l-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: parsleyed, pedalfers, pedaliers, pedlaries, plastered, pleasured, reclasped, resampled.
	+2 letters: clepsydrae, dealership, espadrille, espaliered, leadership, leopardess, overpedals, paloverdes, plaistered, repleaders, splattered, spreadable, stepladder.
	+3 letters: dealerships, depolarizes, desperately, displeasure, espadrilles, interpleads, leaderships, loudspeaker, persuadable, predicables, redisplayed, relandscape, replastered, stepladders.
	+4 letters: candlepowers, depilatories, depolarizers, displeasures, disreputable, frankpledges, glasspapered, leopardesses, loudspeakers, paraldehydes, personalised, personalized, philanderers, placeholders, preassembled, presidential, reduplicates, relandscaped, relandscapes, slipstreamed, subepidermal, tradespeople.
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