lapsing
Meaning of lapsing
- (of a right, privilege, or agreement) become invalid because it is not used, claimed, or renewed; expire.
he let his membership of CND lapse
- pass gradually into (an inferior state or condition).
the country has lapsed into chaos
late Middle English: from Latin lapsus, from labi ‘to glide, slip, or fall’; the verb reinforced by Latin lapsare ‘to slip or stumble’.
Information about lapsing
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of lapsing
laps-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- lapsing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
lapsing synonyms
Meaning backsliding:
backsliding, lapse, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting
Meaning (of a document, authorization, or agreement) come to the end of the period of validity:
Meaning bring to an end:
Meaning declare that (something) is not valid or legally binding:
Meaning remove (someone) from active service in the armed forces because of injury or illness:
Meaning (of a product) no longer available or produced:
Meaning become progressively worse:
Meaning (typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease:
Meaning move from a higher to a lower level, typically rapidly and without control:
Meaning let or make (something) fall vertically:
Meaning make or become worse:
Meaning decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally:
Meaning (of organic matter) rot or decompose through the action of bacteria and fungi:
Meaning (chiefly of animal or vegetable matter) decay or cause to decay by the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose:
Meaning relapse into bad ways or error:
Meaning return to a former or less developed state:
Meaning go back to an earlier state, typically a worse one:
Meaning go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged:
Meaning (of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size:
Meaning fail or decline substantially:
Meaning be unsuccessful in achieving one's goal:
lapsing antonyms
Meaning belonging to the present time; happening or being used or done now:
Meaning (of an argument or point) having a sound basis in logic or fact; reasonable or cogent:
Meaning make or become better:
Meaning make or become stronger:
Anagrams of lapsing
Words that rhyme with lapsing
sing, Christmasing, Dephasing, abasing, abrasing, aliasing, antialiasing, appeasing, basing, biasing, brainteasing, canvasing, carcasing, casing, ceasing, chasing, creasing, databasing, debasing, deceasing, decreasing, degreasing, dephasing, discasing, diseasing, displeasing, dyscrasing, easing, embasing, encasing, enchasing, encreasing, erasing, feasing, freebasing, goliasing, greasing, imbasing, impleasing, incasing, inchasing, increasing, interchasing, lasing, leasing, liasing, lowercasing, masing, measing, metaphrasing