verb
- Pass into a specified state or condition.
- usage: "He sank into nirvana"
- End, at least for a long time.
- usage: "The correspondence lapsed"
- synonyms: lapse
- Drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards.
- Go back to bad behavior.
- usage: "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
- synonyms: relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back
- Let slip.
- usage: "He lapsed his membership"
- synonyms: lapse
- Pass by.
- usage: "three years elapsed"
adjective
- No longer active or practicing.
- usage: "a lapsed Catholic"
- synonyms: nonchurchgoing
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