Lapse

Definition: Lapse

Lapse

Noun

1. A mistake resulting from inattention.

2. A break or intermission in the occurrence of something; "a lapse of three weeks between letters".

3. A failure to maintain a higher state.

Verb

1. Pass into a specified state or condition: "He sank into Nirvana".

2. End, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed".

3. Drop to a lower level; as in one's morals or standards.

4. Go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals".

5. Let slip; "He lapsed his membership".

6. Pass by, as of time.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lapse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Computing

Insurance

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Lapse

Continuance in action

Verb: be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change.

Chemistry, alchemy; progress, growth, lapse, flux.

Course

Verb: elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass; roll on, wear on, press on; flit, fly, slip, slide, glide; run its course.

Noun: corridors of time, sweep of time, vesta of time, course of time, progress of time, process of time, succession of time, lapse of time, flow of time, flux of time, stream of time, tract of time, current of time, tide of time, march of time, step of time, flight of time; duration.

Descent

Noun: descent, descension, declension, declination; fall; falling; Verb:: slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; stumble; fate of Icarus.

Deterioration

Run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale, sweal; lapse, be the worse for; sphacelate: break, break down; spring a leak, crack, start; shrivel; (contract); fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle, decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; " fall into the sear and yellow leaf", rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish; die.

Guilt

Misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break , capital crime, delictum.

Loss

Noun: loss; deperdition, perdition; forfeiture, lapse.

Be lost; lapse.

Oblivion

Short memory, treacherous memory, poor memory, loose memory, slippery memory, failing memory; decay of memory, failure of memory, lapse of memory; waters of Lethe, waters of oblivion.

Relapse

Verb: relapse, lapse; fall back, slide back, sink back; return; retrograde; recidivate; fall off again.

Noun: relapse, lapse; falling back; Verb: retrogradation; (retrogression); deterioration.

The Past

Verb: be past; Adjective: have expired; Adjective:, have run its course, have had its day; pass; pass by, go by, pass away, go away, pass off, go off; lapse, blow over.

Untimeliness

Lose an opportunity, throw away an opportunity, waste an opportunity, neglect; an opportunity; allow the opportunity to pass, suffer the opportunity to pass, allow the opportunity to slip, suffer the opportunity to slip, allow the opportunity to go by, suffer the opportunity to go by, allow the opportunity to escape, suffer the opportunity to escape, allow the opportunity to lapse, suffer the opportunity to lapse, allow the occasion to pass, allow the occasion to slip by; waste time; (be inactive); let slip through the fingers, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen.

Vice

Verb: be vicious; Adjective: sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgress; misdemean oneself, forget oneself, misconduct oneself; misdo, misbehave; fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass; deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue; take a wrong course, go astray; hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one's wild oats.

Crosswords: Lapse

French (lapse).

Could you just put that down to a lapse in concentration (Sliding Doors; writing credit: Peter Howitt.)

A lapse of judgement (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman)

Well, apart from Simon's isolated lapse - which he's told me all about and I've forgiven (A Bit of a Do; writing credit: David Nobbs)

If I fall asleep I'll probably lapse into a coma (God's Army; writing credit: Richard Dutcher)

Time Lapse (2001)

Memory Lapse at the Waterfront (1986)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Gilded Lapse of Time (reference)

• A Momentary Lapse of Reason (reference)

• Lapse of memory (reference)

• Memory Lapse (Harlequin Temptation, No 522) (reference)

• Nuclear Debate: Deterrence and the Lapse of Faith (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• A Momentary Lapse of Reason [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• A Permanent Lapse of Reason [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Time Lapse (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• First Alert FTR960R Professional 960 Hour Time Lapse VCR with Audio (reference)

• Sylvania SY-550 14" Color Quad Combo Monitor w/ Built-in 960-Hour Time Lapse VCR (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Where the contract has lapsed during the war owing to nonpayment of premiums, or has become void from breach of the conditions of the contract, the assured or his representatives or the person entitled shall have the right at any time within twelve months of the coming into force of the present Treaty to claim from the insurer the surrender value of the policy at the date of its lapse or avoidance. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It was at this period that Marius, after the lapse of six months, saw her again at the Luxembourg

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

If not diagnosed and treated with insulin, a person can lapse into a life-threatening diabetic coma, also known as diabetic ketoacidosis. (references)

But the time lapse between the start of the mother's illness and the birth of the baby generally allows the mother's immune system to react and produce antibodies to fight the virus. (references)

An annual turnover of approximately 25% in the dog population necessitates revaccination of millions of animals each year, and reintroduction of rabies through transport of infected animals from outside a controlled area is always a possibility should control programs lapse. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tunisia

In some cases, several years lapse after detention and before the defendants are brought to trial. (references)

Economic History

Niger

Following full independence on August 3, 1960, however, membership was allowed to lapse. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

Cote d'Ivoire became independent on August 7, 1960, and permitted its community membership to lapse. (references)

Human Rights

India

The special task force established by the state police forces of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to capture a bandit hiding in forests in the border area between the 2 states had arrested some 121 persons under the TADA prior to the law's lapse; 51 of these persons still were in custody at year's end. (references)

India

In comparison, 1,413 suspected militants were arrested, and 1,080 militants surrendered in 1999. The Government was unable to provide complete statistics for the number of persons held under special security laws in the northeastern states, but acknowledged that 43 persons were in detention under the National Security Act as of 1998. Although the Government allowed the Terrorist and Disruptive Practices (Prevention) Act (TADA) to lapse in 1995, one human right organization credibly reported that more than 1,000 persons remained in detention awaiting prosecution under the law. (references)

Trade

Nigeria

The Power of Attorney should be designed to lapse and the appointed solicitor ceases to function upon the conclusion of all registration formalities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "lapse": adiabatic lapse rate ♦ after the lapse ♦ after the lapse of ♦ be in lapse ♦ lapse away ♦ lapse back into crime ♦ lapse from duty ♦ lapse in confidence ♦ lapse in discipline ♦ lapse in justice ♦ lapse in standards ♦ lapse into obscurity ♦ lapse of good taste ♦ lapse of justice ♦ lapse of memory ♦ lapse of pen ♦ lapse of taste ♦ lapse of the tongue ♦ maximum gust lapse ♦ maximum gust lapse interval ♦ memory lapse ♦ moist adiabatic lapse rate ♦ stylistic lapse ♦ temperature lapse rate. Additional references.

Beginning with "lapse": lapse-rate, lapse-rates.

Ending with "lapse": time-lapse.

Albanian

skadim (expiry), shthurem (open), shkas (matter, motive, slide, slip, slip down, slither), shkarje e gjuhës, rënie (abatement, bathos, collapse, come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, decrepitude, degeneracy, degradation, degression, depression, descent, dilapidation, downfall, drop, drop off, fall, falling, flop, incidence, letdown, precipitation, prolapse, recession, regress, spill, taper, tumble, wane), përfundoj (accomplish, bring closer, button up, clinch, close, come out, complete, conclude, determine, do, end, finalize, finish, finish off, fulfil, fulfill, perfect, push through, put through, reason, result, terminate, touch up, transact, wear), përfundim (afterpiece, closing, closure, completion, conclusion, consequence, consummation, denouement, derivation, development, eduction, effect, end product, event, expiration, finality, finding, finish, fulfillment, fulfilment, harvest, issue, job, last, offshoot, offspring, outcome, output, perfecting, performance, result, resume, rider, total, train, upshot, windup), mbaroj (be over, call it a day, cease, close, decline, despatch, die, dispatch, do, drink up, eat up, end, finish, get through, go out, perish, peter out, spend, surcease, terminate, wind up), kthim prapa (ascent, throwback), kalon (draw, slip past, wear on), kalim (crossing, cut, devolution, escape, going, jump, negotiation, orifice, pass, passage, passageway, passing, release, switch over, transfer, transference, transit, transition), interval (bracket, hour, interval), gaboj (betray, cheat, deceive, delude, disappoint, err, fraud, let down, make a mistake, mistake, seduce, swindle), gabim i lehtë, gabim (balk, baulk, boob, delinquency, delusion, error, fallacy, false step, fault, flub, frailty, gaffe, Lapsus, misdoing, Miss, misstep, mistake, slip, slip up, trip). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فلته, ‏هفوة (gag, peccadillo, slip, trip), ‏غلط (make a mistake, mistake, slip up), ‏توقف (break off, breakdown, come to a halt, cut off, demise, discontinue, end, halt, hinge, hitch, layover, let up, letup, obstruction, pass by, pause, pull up, quit, rest, run down, setback, stall, stand, stay, stop, stop over, stoppage, stopping, touch), ‏سقطة زلة (slip, stumble), ‏زلة (cringing, error, fault, faux pas, frailty, peccadillo, stumble), ‏زوال فترة زمنية, ‏زوال مفعول, ‏إختفى (die out, disappear, mask, sink, slide, vanish), ‏أهمل (be negligent, default, desert, discount, disregard, forsake, go by the board, lay aside, lay by, leave out, neglect, omit, overlook, pass, pass over smth., scorn, set apart, skive, slight, throwaway). (various references)

Bulgarian 

западане (declension, drop, ebb, labefaction), изпадам (fly into, pass into, prolapse), изпадане (prolapse), изтича ми срока, изтичане на срок, падам (attach, come down, crash, descend, drop, drop off, fall, fall off, fall out, go down, hang, land, light, prang, ring down, roll off, set, settle, settle down, slip down, topple, tumble, tumble down), падение (abjection, come down, disgrace, fall, ruin), погасявам се, погасяване на право, прегрешение (error, peccancy, sin, stumble, trespass), пропуск (blank, countersign, flaw, gap, negligence, omission, out, oversight, pass, permit, pretermission, protection, safe conduct, skip, slip, slip up), допускам пропуск, лапсус, ход (action, bat, course, current, foot, gait, going, motion, move, movement, operation, pace, passage, passing, play, ploy, process, race, rate, run, running, stream, swing, tenor, tide, track, train, tread, twist, walk, way), загубвам (lose, spend), минавам (elapse, flow, get by, go, go by, pass, pass away, pass by, pass into, pass round, pass through, range, roll by, roll on, run, wear through), малка грешка, отдавам се (addict, employ oneself, give oneself, indulge, revel), отклонение (aberration, bias, declination, deflection, deflexion, derivation, detour, deviation, digression, divergence, divergency, diversion, drift, excursion, inflection, inflexion, ramification, shunt, swerve, turnout, variation), отстъпничество (apostasy, recreancy, renegation, tergiversation), грешка (blooper, blunder, boss, break, defect, demerit, dereliction, error, fault, inaccuracy, inexactitude, misdoing, misstep, mistake, muff, slip up, slipping, snafu), губя сила, тека (course, devolve, effuse, flow, flux, leak, roll, roll by, run, run on, set, sluice), течение (course, current, draught, drift, flow, flowage, flux, fluxion, onflow, passage, stream, sweep, tide), промеждутък от време (interim, stretch). (various references)

Chinese 

流逝 (Elapsed, Elapsing), 失誤 (miss). (various references)

Czech

zklamat (belie, disappoint, disillusion, fail), zanedbanost, uplynout (elapse, expire, go by, intervene), udìlat chybu (blunder, make a mistake, mistake), selhat (abort, backfire, break down, come to nothing, fail, fall down on the job, fizzle out, give out, go wrong, miscarry, misfire), selhání (failure, malfunction, misfire), propadnout (expire, fail, fall through, flunk, surrender), promlèení, poklesek (stumble), omyl (error, fallibility, faux pas, Lapsus, oversight), chyba (defect, errata, error, failing, fault, inadequacy, mistake, slip, slip up), úpadek (bankruptcy, come down, comedown, decadence, decay, decline, degradation, deterioration, labefaction, recession, retrogression, retroversion), èasový úsek (space). (various references)

Dutch

terugvallen. (various references)

Esperanto

refali. (various references)

Farsi 

زوال (Chute, Consumption, Decadence, Decay, Decline, Downfall, Fall), شدن (Be, Become, Branch, Grow, Wind), استفاده ازمرورزمان , الحاد (Atheism, Heresy, Paganism), انصراف , انحراف موقت , انقضاء (Expiry, Passage), برگشت (Back, Backstroke, Refluence, Regress, Regression, Relapse, Repercussion, Retrogress, Return, Reversal, Revert, Veer), خطا (Error, Injustice, Miscue, Sin, Sinister, Slip, Transgression, Wrong), مرور (Glance, Perusal, Revisal, Revision, Tract), سهوونسیان کردن , سپری ازمدافتادن , ترک اولی , گذشت زمان , لغزش (Error, Gaffe, Peccadillo, Slide, Slip, Slippage, Slither, Trip), نسیان (Amnesia, Oblivion), مشمول مرورزمان شدن , خرف شدن . (various references)

Finnish

vaipua (drop, sink), harhaaskel (false step, mistake). (various references)

French

lapsus, lapse, laps, s'éteindre, retomber (land), redonner dans, faire une erreur, disparaître, déchéance, cesser de pratiquer, abandonner (lay aside). (various references)

German

verfehlung (misconduct, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, missing). (various references)

Greek 

σφάλλω (err, mistake, slip), μεσολάβηση (inntermediateness, intercession, interposition, intervention, mediation), πέφτω (blow down, come on, crash, drop off, fall, go down, plonk, plunge, slump, slumped in a chair, take a dive, topple, tumble), πάροδοσ χρόνου, παραγράφω (prescribe, recast, write too much), παραγραφή (invalidation, prescription, statute of limitations, statutory limitation), παραδρομή (lapsus linguae, oversight, slip), πταίσμα (malfeasance, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, petty offence), υποπίπτω (come under), λάθος (error, false, fault, incorrect, mistake, wrong), ολισθαίνω (skid, slide, slide into, slip), ολίσθημα (lapsus, slip, slither). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממע�" (failure, slipping), מע�" (failure, slipping), לש�'ות (err, mistake, slip up), לחזור לסורו (backslide, relapse, revert to wicked ways), ש�'יא�" קל�", כשל (failing, failure, slip). (various references)

Hungarian

múlás (flying, passing), megszűnés (cessation, let-up, termination), kihagyás (dropping, hiatus, intermission, intermittence, misfire, omission, omittance, skip), időköz (interim, period, space, space of time), elévülés (desuetude, limitation, prescription), csúszás (crawl, creep, glide, gliding, shifting, skid, skidding, slide, sliding, slip, slipping), botlás (fault, mistake, slip, stumble, stumbling, trip). (various references)

Indonesian

kehilapan. (various references)

Italian

lasso (fatigued, interval, period, tired, unhappy, weary), trascorrere (delinquencies, elapse, go by, malfeasance, offence, pass, spend), scorrettezza (impropriety, incorrectness, mistake, rudeness), scivolare (glide, skid, slide, slip, slither, swim), sbaglio (aberration, error, mistake, slip, slip up), periodo (age, cycle, period, phase, run, season, span, spell, stage, term, time), passare (be passed, be taken for, call at, cross, elapse, get through, give, go beyond, go by, go through, hand, hand on, happen, help, pass, pass off, put, put through, roll by, roll on, run, see out, slip, spend, stop by, strain, switch, take place, to pass, transfer), mancanza (absence, default, defect, deficiency, failing, failure, fault, lack, Lacuna, shortage, shortcoming, want), intervallo (break, gap, interlude, intermission, Interspace, interval, range, recess, snatch, space, span, spell, time lag), estinzione (extinction, liquidation, quietus), estinguersi (burn out, die, go out), errore (aberrant, aberration, bug, error, fallacy, falsity, fault, mistake, oversight, slip), errare (be mistaken, err, make, make a mistake, make mistakes, mistake, roam, rove, wander), dimenticanza (carelessness, forgetfulness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inobservance, oversight). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

消滅 (annihilation, extinguishment, termination). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しっ�"う (abatement, enforcement, invalidation, japanning, lacquer work, misunderstanding, moving forward by sliding on one's knees, performance), しょうめつ (annihilation, birth and death, extinguishment, termination). (various references)

Korean 

경과 (Elapsing, lapsing). (various references)

Manx

tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering), skirraghtyn (skid), cooyl-skyrraghtyn (backslide, recidivism). (various references)

Norwegian

forløp (course), forfalle, forfall (decadence, decay, decline), feile (err), feil (aberration, defect, error, fault, flaw, mistake). (various references)

Pig Latin

apselay.(various references)

Portuguese

lapso (error, lapsus, oversight, slip, stumble, tripping). (various references)

Romanian

lapsus (vacuum), a-şi pierde valabilitatea, cãdere (authority, becomingness, break down, collapse, cropper, debacle, destruction, downfall, drop, failure, fall, labefaction, plump, rot, spill, Turkey), curs (act, channel, course, current, duration, flow, lecture, progress, quotation, rate, session, swim, tack, train, trend), decãdea (decay, decline, deteriorate, dilapidate, fall, fall into decay, go down, go to seed, putrefy, rot, ruin, run to seed), greşealã (aberration, blemish, bloomer, blunder, defect, drawback, error, failing, fault, flaw, miscarriage, mistake, rub, shortcoming, sin, slip, trespass, wrong), întrerupere (abruption, arrest, breach, catch, cessation, chasm, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuity, disjunction, intermission, interruption, interval, lock out, pause, stop, stoppage, stopping, suspense), mers (course, current, drive, driven, gait, go, going, motion, movement, pace, run, scrambling, set, stroke, walk, walking), trece (bequeath, blow over, call, call on, cease, clear away, cross, die, diminish, disappear, elapse, enter, flow, Ford, get in, get under, go, go by, go on, insert, jot down, lapse away, pass, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, pop, reeve, register, roll, sail, sift, slip away, slip by, transmit, traverse, wear), neglijare (dereliction, neglect, slighting), perioadã (age, cycle, date, day, distance, epoch, era, period, repetend, season, stadium, stage, streak, term, tide, time), pieri (die, disappear, expire, flee, go under, perish), scãdere a temperaturii, scurgere (course, discharge, drain, drainage, effluence, effluent, efflux, escape, flow, issue, leakage, leaking, loss, March, overflow, passage, passing, running, trickling), se scurge (drain, dribble, ebb, elapse, flow, fly by, lapse away, pass, pass by, run, slip away, slip by, stream, wear out), interval (aisle, distance, gap, headway, interregnum, Interspace, interval, pause, space, space bar, while). (various references)

Russian 

оплошность (gaffe, misdoing, omission, oversight). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tok (consecution, course, flow, flux, march, process, series, stream, tide), propust (omission, oversight, skip), pripasti (devolve), pasti (collapse, fall, fall down, fall to, graze, occur, pasture, redound, sink), isteći (escape, expire, run out), gubitak (forfeiture, losings, loss, outage, toll, wastage), greška (blooper, bungle, error, fallacy, foult, goof, lapsus, miscarriage, mistake, slip up, slipup, trip, wrong), dopasti (devolve). (various references)

Spanish

lapso (span). (various references)

Swedish

tidrymd (aeon, term), lapsus (lapsus, slip), förlopp (course, evolution, pattern, the passage of events). (various references)

Thai

การพลา�"พลั้ง. (various references)

Turkish

kaymak (aquaplane, cream, glide, glissade, head, prolapse, skate, ski, skimmings, slide, slip, slither, slump), bitmek (adore, be at an end, be out of smth., be very fond of, break off, break up, cease, come to an end, conclude, die down, drop, end, end off, end up, expire, fag, finish, lay off, leave off, quit, run out, sprout, stop, surcease, terminate, vegetate, wear out), düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decline, decrease, deduct, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, go down, land, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), dolmak (be full, clog, congest, fill, go out to, swell, swim), geçme (contagion, dissemination, encroachment, fitting, intervention, pass, passage, passing, permeation, slip on, splice, tenon, transit, transmigration, whirligig), geçmek (abate, adjourn, be current, be over, be transmitted, be valid, beat, best, better, cap, catch, change to, clear, come down, cross, cut across, devolve, distance, elapse, exceed, Excel, expire, fit in, get through, go, go by, go down, go out, have outgrown smb., interlace, intervene, leave behind, negotiate, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outgrow, outpace, outrange, outrival, outrun, outstrip, pass, pass away, pass beyond, pass by, pass into, pass off, pass on, pass over, pass up, permeate, ride, rub on, run, run out, subside, surpass, top, tower above, track, transmigrate, turn, wear off), hata (balk, baulk, blemish, delinquency, demerit, error, failing, false step, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, floater, fluff, gaffe, goof, imperfection, inaccuracy, mistake, slip, slip up, stumble, trip, wrong, wrongness), hata yapmak (do wrong, err, go astray, goof, make mistake, nod, slip, slip up, stumble, stumble in, stumble into, trip), akıp gitmek (elapse, flee, range, run off, slide, slip by, stream), kaçmak (abscond, blow, bolt, break, break away, bunk, clear off, decamp, defect, desert, elope, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, get away, go by, hook it, ladder, Lam, leg it, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, nip off, pack up, pull out, retreat, run, run away, run off, scamper away, scoot, scuttle, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, take flight, travel, walk off), zaman aşımına uğramak (prescribe), kaytarma (cop out), sürçme (slip, slip up, stumble, trip), sapma (bias, declension, declination, deflection, deflexion, departure, detour, deviation, divagation, drift, excursion, inequality, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, refracting, refractive, spread, swing, turn, warp), sapmak (bear, deflect, detour, deviate, digress, diverge, diverge from, lead away from, oblique, sheer, sheer away, sheer from, sheer off, slant, stray, swerve, swing, turn, turn aside, turn off, turn up, wander, wander off), sona erme (ending, expiration, expiry, finality, finish), yanılma (bias, goof, misapprehension, slip up), yanlış (Amiss, corrigendum, errant, erroneous, error, fallacy, false, fault, improper, inaccuracy, inaccurate, inadvisable, incorrect, inexact, mis-, miscue, mistake, mistaken, untrue, wrong, wrongly, wry), kaçma (break, bunk, elopement, escape, flight, getaway, scamper, scuttle). (various references)

Ukrainian

упущення (balk, delinquency, omission), гріх (debt, evil, guilt, peccancy, sin, transgression, wrong doing), відхилятися (bear off, deflect, deviate, diverge, incline, run off, skew, stray, swerve, trend, turn, turn aside), недолік (blemish, defect, deficiency, deficit, dereliction, disadvantage, drawback, failing, imperfection, infirmity, minus, negative, objection, out, preterition, shortcoming, take off, vice, wrinkle), занепасти, поміжок, перетворюватися (become, pass, transubstantiate). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lát (tick), sự truỵ lạc khoảng, sự suy đ�"i (decadence, decadency, declination, degeneracy, degeneration, labefaction), sự sai sót sự sa ngâ, sự lầm lẫn (lapsus), quãng. (various references)

Welsh

pall (fail, failing, lack, mantle, tent). (various references)

evanuerit, evanuerunt, evanuit, lapsus. (various references)

laps. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "lapse": lapsed, lapser, lapsers, lapses. (additional references)

Words ending with "lapse": collapse, elapse, prolapse, relapse. (additional references)

Words containing "lapse": collapsed, collapses, elapsed, elapses, prolapsed, prolapses, relapsed, relapser, relapsers, relapses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lapse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aapso, alpes, Alpkem, clapse, laisse, lape, lapew, lapose, Lapsy, lapz, larsa, larse, lase, laspe, lopsi, lpas, lpase, lps, lpsa, lsase, Lupesku, lyase, lypse, mapse, papse, wapse. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: leaps, pales, peals, pleas, salep, sepal, spale.

-1 letter: ales, alps, apes, apse, laps, lase, leap, leas, pale, pals, pase, peal, peas, plea, sale, salp, seal, slap, spae.

-2 letters: ale, alp, als, ape, asp, els, lap, las, lea, pal, pas, pea, pes, sae, sal, sap, sea, sel, spa.

-3 letters: ae, al, as, el, es, la, pa, pe.

+1 letter: alephs, appels, apples, asleep, aslope, elapse, espial, lapels, lapsed, lapser, lapses, lipase, maples, padles, palest, palets, panels, parles, passel, pastel, pearls, pedals, petals, places, plages, planes, plates, pleads, please, pleats, saleps, salpae, sample, sepals, septal, spales, splake, staple, tepals.

+2 letters: alipeds, alpines, amplest, ampules, aplites, apostle, appeals, applies, appulse, beclasp, beleaps, capless, caplets, capsule, carpels, chapels, clasped, clasper, cypsela, dapples, deposal, dewlaps, earlaps, elapids, elapsed, elapses, empales, enclasp, escalop, espanol, espials, exposal, felspar, hapless, impales, lampers, lapides, lapises, lappers, lappets, lapsers, leapers, lipases, napless, paddles, paellas, paisley, palaces, palates, paliest, pallets, palmers, palsied, palsies, palters, papules, parcels, parleys, paroles, parrels, parsley, passels, pastels, pedalos, pedlars, pelages, pelotas, peltast, persalt, perusal, phaseal, pineals, placers, placets, plagues, plaices, planers, planets, plaques, plashed, plasher, plashes, plaster, platens, platers, platies, players, pleased, pleaser, pleases, pleiads, pleuras, presale, psalmed, psalter, pulsate, rappels, reclasp, relapse, repeals, replans, replays, reposal, sampled, sampler, samples, sapless, scaleup, scalped, scalpel, scalper, sepaled, shapely, slapped, slapper, spackle, spalled, spaller, spancel, spangle, spaniel, sparely, sparkle, spatzle, special, specula, spelean, spheral, splakes, splayed, splenia, stapled, stapler, staples, talipes, upleaps, upscale.