1. A mistake resulting from inattention
   "The accountant's lapse in the financial report cost the company dearly";
   - oversight
    
2. A failure to maintain a higher state
   "His lapse into old habits disappointed his mentor";
   - backsliding, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting
    
3. A break or intermission in the occurrence of something
   "a lapse of three weeks between letters"

1. Go back to bad behaviour
   "He lapsed into his old habits";
   - relapse, recidivate [rare], regress, retrogress, fall back
    
2. Revert to sinful or undesirable behaviour after a period of improvement or commitment to change
   "Conservatives worry about McCain's lapse on immigration";
   - backslide
    
3. End, at least for a long time
   "The correspondence lapsed"
    
4. Pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
   "He lapsed into nirvana";
   - sink, pass
    
5. Become later by the passage of a given amount of time
   "three years lapsed";
   - elapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along
    
6. Let slip
   "He lapsed his membership"

Sounds like: apse, L

Derived forms: lapsing, lapsed, lapses

See also: glide

Type of: advance, break, cease, drop away, drop off, end, error, failure, fall away, fault, finish, forego, forfeit, forgo, give up, go on, intermission, interruption, march on, mistake, move, move on, pass on, pause, progress, regress, retrovert [rare], return, revert, slip, stop, suspension, terminate, throw overboard, turn back, waive

Encyclopedia: Lapse