Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to lapse
Participle: lapsed
Gerund: lapsing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | lapse |
| you | lapse |
| he;she;it | lapses |
| we | lapse |
| you | lapse |
| they | lapse |
Perfect
| I | have lapsed |
| you | have lapsed |
| he;she;it | has lapsed |
| we | have lapsed |
| you | have lapsed |
| they | have lapsed |
Past
| I | lapsed |
| you | lapsed |
| he;she;it | lapsed |
| we | lapsed |
| you | lapsed |
| they | lapsed |
Pluperfect
| I | had lapsed |
| you | had lapsed |
| he;she;it | had lapsed |
| we | had lapsed |
| you | had lapsed |
| they | had lapsed |
Future
| I | will lapse |
| you | will lapse |
| he;she;it | will lapse |
| we | will lapse |
| you | will lapse |
| they | will lapse |
Future Perfect
| I | will have lapsed |
| you | will have lapsed |
| he;she;it | will have lapsed |
| we | will have lapsed |
| you | will have lapsed |
| they | will have lapsed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | lapse |
| you | lapse |
| he;she;it | lapse |
| we | lapse |
| you | lapse |
| they | lapse |
Perfect
| I | have lapsed |
| you | have lapsed |
| he;she;it | have lapsed |
| we | have lapsed |
| you | have lapsed |
| they | have lapsed |
Imperfect
| I | lapsed |
| you | lapsed |
| he;she;it | lapsed |
| we | lapsed |
| you | lapsed |
| they | lapsed |
Pluperfect
| I | had lapsed |
| you | had lapsed |
| he;she;it | had lapsed |
| we | had lapsed |
| you | had lapsed |
| they | had lapsed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would lapse |
| you | would lapse |
| he;she;it | would lapse |
| we | would lapse |
| you | would lapse |
| they | would lapse |
Perfect
| I | would have lapsed |
| you | would have lapsed |
| he;she;it | would have lapsed |
| we | would have lapsed |
| you | would have lapsed |
| they | would have lapsed |
Imperative
| you | lapse |
| we | Let's lapse |
| you | lapse |
Verbs conjugated like 'lapse'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'lapse'
elapse,
lase,
lipse,
ape,
arse,
base,
cape,
case,
cause,
claps,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to become worse
- break down, decline, degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, fade, fall off, go bad, go downhill, go off, go to hell, go to pot, go to seed, go to the dogs, molder, retrograde, shrivel, suffer, worsen, wane, wither
- expire
- revert, return, backslide, relapse, decline
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1526, "slip of the memory," from M.Fr. laps "lapse," from L. lapsus "a slipping and falling, flight (of time), falling into error," from labi "to slip, glide, fall." Meaning "a moral slip" is from 1582; that of "a falling away from one's faith" is from 1660. Legal sense of "termination of a right or privilege" first recorded 1570. The verb is first attested 1641.
2. From Middle French laps, from Latin lāpsus, from lābī (“to slip”). Doublet of lapsus.
Sample Sentences
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This perpetual disposition to shorten our words by retrenching the vowels, is nothing else but a tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended [1841, Jonathan Swift, “A letter to the Lord High Treasurer”, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, London: Henry Washbourne, →OCLC, page 288:]
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Homer, however, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, in his story of Mars and Venus, in his behaviour of Irus and in other passages has been observed to have lapsed into the Burlesque character, and to have departed from that serious Air which seems essential to the magnificence of an Epic Poem. [1730, Joseph Addison, The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq., volume the third, London: Jacob Tonson, →OCLC:]
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To lapſe in Fullneſſe / Is ſorer, than to lye for Neede: and Falſhood / Is worſe in Kings, than Beggers. [1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi], page 385, column 2:]
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The connections at Lewisham were never built, and the powers of the Act lapsed; but the spur at Nunhead was partly constructed. [1946 November and December, “The Why and The Wherefore: Abandoned Embankment at Nunhead, S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 392:]
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...and if the archbishop shall not fill it up within six Months ensuing, it lapses to the King, but according to the Canon Law to the Pope. [1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani, London: Printed for the Author by D. Leach, →OCLC, page 116:]