Word Meaning

Meaning of lapse

- A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
- A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
- 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.
- A fall or apostasy.
- To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses.
- 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.
- To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc.
- To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
- To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.
- To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.

Crossword clue for lapse

- A moral fall
- An error
- Bit of a mistake to have left church recess
- Brief failure of concentration
- Brief failure of memory, judgment, etc
- Degenerate
- Drift (into coma)
- Expire
- Fall back
- Having left apse was a mistake
- Leaps about only to fall back
- Minor error making pleas
- Minor transgression
- Mistake
- Mix up
- Momentary fault or failure
- Momentary misjudgment
- Moral fall
- Opportunity
- Pass
- Pass into disuse
- Short break
- Slight error
- Slip-up