ENGLISH: lapse - CREOLE: perime
Overview of noun lapse
The noun lapse has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (3) oversight, lapse -- (a mistake resulting from inattention)
2. (1) lapse -- (a break or intermission in the occurrence of something; "a lapse of three weeks between letters")
3. (1) backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting -- (a failure to maintain a higher state)
Overview of verb lapse
The verb lapse has 6 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (1) sink, pass, lapse -- (pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into Nirvana")
2. (1) lapse -- (end, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed")
3. (1) lapse, backslide -- (drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards)
4. (1) relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back -- (go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals")
5. lapse -- (let slip; "He lapsed his membership")
6. elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along -- (pass by; "three years elapsed")
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