Synonyms:
oversight, lapse
Meaning: a mistake resulting from inattention
Synonyms:
lapse
Meaning: a break or intermission in the occurrence of something; "a lapse of three weeks between letters"
Synonyms:
backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting
Meaning: a failure to maintain a higher state
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
sink, pass, lapse
Meaning: pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into nirvana"
Synonyms:
lapse
Meaning: end, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed"
Synonyms:
lapse, backslide
Meaning: drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
Synonyms:
relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall_back
Meaning: go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
Usage examples
It is a wrong which no lapse of time or combination of circumstances can ever make right.
Except that, in the seven, there was a lapse of several years--and where was the volcanic dust all that time?
After the lapse of ten or fifteen minutes, the green rind embrowns and cracks, showing through the fissures in its sides the milk-white interior.
These reflexions, as I say, quickened his generosity; yet, make them as he might, he saw himself, with the lapse of the period, more and more disconcerted.
The mass breeds worms so rapidly, however, as Edwards informed us, that after the lapse of a month or two it is a jumble of yuca scraps and writhing articulates.
The ambitious and aggressive States obtain possession of the central authority which, having grown strong in the lapse of time, asserts its entire sovereignty over the States.
And, sharing his astonishment, but I think not his joy, I read on the western face of the block, in Runic characters, half mouldered away with lapse of ages, this thrice-accursed name:
They were framed at the same time, and laid aside at the same time: they sank together into oblivion; and they were, after the lapse of several years, again brought together before the world.
When men have once allowed themselves to think no more of what is to befall them after life, they readily lapse into that complete and brutal indifference to futurity, which is but too conformable to some propensities of mankind.
Reaching home, he mused over his curious superstition, innate or acquired, in doing this, and the strange forgetfulness which had led to such a lapse from common sense and custom in one who wished, next to being a scholar, to be a Christian divine.