lapsing in English

verb

1

(of a right, privilege, or agreement) become invalid because it is not used, claimed, or renewed; expire.

my membership to the gym has lapsed

synonyms: expire, become void, become invalid, run out

2

pass gradually into (an inferior state or condition).

the country has lapsed into chaos

synonyms: revert, relapse, drift, slide, slip, sink, deteriorate, decline, fall, degenerate, backslide, regress, retrogress

noun

reverting, reversion, backsliding, relapse, relapsing, lapse

verb

expire, revert, backslide, regress, go by, sink
expire, become void, become invalid, run out
revert, relapse, drift, slide, slip, sink, deteriorate, decline, fall, degenerate, backslide, regress, retrogress
backslide
regress, fall back, relapse, retrogress, recidivate
go by, slip by, go along, slip away, slide by, pass, elapse
sink, pass

Use "lapsing" in a sentence

1. The Many-Headed Hydra, without lapsing into Anachronism, bears out this claim

2. 15 Adjani is unrivalled when it comes to expressing violent pain without lapsing into pathos.

3. Synonyms for Bating include ebbing, lessening, waning, aBating, moderating, slackening, lapsing, easing, checking and curbing

4. 23 By this time Snyder was lapsing in and out of consciousness and his body temperature was fluctuating wildly.

5. Acedia manifests itself as the temptation to deny our commitment to things, our choice of life, coupled with the temptation to overwhelming doubt, the lapsing of certitudes

6. Backsliding - a failure to maintain a higher state lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reverting, lapse, reversion failure - an act that fails; "his failure to pass the test" recidivism - habitual relapse into crime

7. At a time when many other Seattle disciples were lapsing into inactivity or experimenting with less commercial sounds, Creed carried the torch of straightforward, grungy hard rock without apology -- and they were amply rewarded, selling millions upon millions of