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  Lapse \Lapse\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lapsed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Lapsing.]
     1. To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away;
        to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly
        restricted to figurative uses.
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              A tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those
              northern nations from whom we are descended.
                                                    --Swift.
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              Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites,
              has lapsed into the burlesque character. --Addison.
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     2. To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to
        fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a
        fault by inadvertence or mistake.
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              To lapse in fullness
              Is sorer than to lie for need.        --Shak.
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     3. (Law)
        (a) To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or
            from the original destination, by the omission,
            negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a
            legatee, etc.
        (b) To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
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                  If the archbishop shall not fill it up within
                  six months ensuing, it lapses to the king.
                                                    --Ayliffe.
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  Lapsed \Lapsed\, a.
     1. Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost
        position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to
        figurative uses.
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              Once more I will renew
              His lapsed powers, though forfeit.    --Milton.
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     2. Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of
        insurance; a lapsed legacy.
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     Lapsed devise, Lapsed legacy (Law), a devise, or legacy,
        which fails to take effect in consequence of the death of
        the devisee, or legatee, before that of the testator, or
        for other cause. --Wharton (Law Dict.).
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  Lapse \Lapse\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lapsed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Lapsing.]
     1. To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away;
        to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly
        restricted to figurative uses.
  
              A tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those
              northern nations from whom we are descended.
                                                    --Swift.
  
              Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites,
              has lapsed into the burlesque character. --Addison.
  
     2. To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to
        fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a
        fault by inadvertence or mistake.
  
              To lapse in fullness Is sorer than to lie for need.
                                                    --Shak.
  
     3. (Law)
        (a) To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or
            from the original destination, by the omission,
            negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a
            legatee, etc.
        (b) To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
  
                  If the archbishop shall not fill it up within
                  six months ensuing, it lapses to the king.
                                                    --Ayliffe.

  Lapsed \Lapsed\, a.
     1. Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost
        position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to
        figurative uses.
  
              Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though
              forfeit.                              --Milton.
  
     2. Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of
        insurance; a lapsed legacy.
  
     Lapsed devise, Lapsed legacy (Law), a devise, or legacy,
        which fails to take effect in consequence of the death of
        the devisee, or legatee, before that of the testator, or
        for ether cause. --Wharton (Law Dict.).

  lapsed
       adj : no longer active or practicing; "a lapsed Catholic" [syn: nonchurchgoing]

  lapsed
     Estonian n.
     (noun form of et laps  nom p)

  lapsed
     a.
     1 (l en discontinue Discontinued); having ceased or gone out of use.
     2 (lb en of a person) Changed to a less valued condition or state;
  ''especially'' having lost one's religious faith.
     3 (lb en jocular) By extension, having changed a (secular) belief or
  adherence.
     4 (lb en archaic of a legacy) Having passed from the original holder
  or authority; no longer claimed.
     vb.
     (infl of en lapse  ed-form)

  lapsed
     Estonian n.
     (noun form of et laps  nom p)

  lapsed
     Estonian n.
     (noun form of et laps  nom p)

  lapsed
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm  lapse d)

  lapsed /lˈapst/
  aftandig, aftands

  Lapsed /lˈapst/
  منتكس

  lapsed /lˈapst/ 
  promlčený

  lapsed /lˈapst/ 
  propadlý

  lapsed /lˈapst/
  erlöscht
     Synonyms: expired, become extinct, terminated, been terminated
  
   see: expire, become extinct, lapse, terminate, be terminated, expiring, becoming extinct, lapsing, terminating, being terminated, expires, becomes extinct, lapses, terminates, is terminated, expired, became extinct, lapsed terminated, was terminated, unextinguished, a mortgage is extinguished, The claim is extinguished by prescription., The country ceases to be a member.
  

  lapsed /lˈapst/
  verfallen, erloschen, abgelaufen
   see: lapse, lapsing
  

  lapsed /lˈapst/
  vergangen, verstrichen, verronnen, verflossen
     Synonyms: passed, elapsed
  
   see: pass, lapse, elapse, passing, lapsing, elapsing, passes, lapses, elapses, passed, lapsed, elapsed
  

  lapsed /lˈapst/
  verging, verstrich, verrann, verfloss
     Synonyms: passed, elapsed
  
   see: pass, lapse, elapse, passing, lapsing, elapsing, passed, lapsed, elapsed, passes, lapses, elapses
  

  lapsed /læpst/
  caduc, délabré, infirme, vieux

  lapsed /lˈapst/
  decrepito

  lapsed /læpst/
  aftands, bouwvallig, gammel, uitgeleefd, uitgewoond, wrak

  lapsed /læpst/
  caduco, decrépito, frágil

  lapsed /læpst/
  decrépito

  
/ˈɫæpst/

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "lapsed":
     Adamic, Circean, ago, animal, animalistic, antiquated, antique,
     apostate, atheistic, backsliding, beastlike, beastly, bestial,
     blasphemous, blown over, bodily, brutal, brute, brutish, by,
     bygone, bypast, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, dated, dead,
     dead and buried, deceased, defunct, departed, earthy, elapsed,
     erring, expired, extinct, fallen, fallen from grace, finished,
     fleshly, forgotten, frail, gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, gross,
     has-been, impious, impure, infirm, irrecoverable, irreligious,
     irreverent, material, materialistic, no more, nonspiritual,
     obsolete, of easy virtue, orgiastic, over, passe, passed,
     passed away, past, peccable, physical, postlapsarian, prodigal,
     profanatory, profane, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade,
     run out, sacrilegious, swinish, unangelic, unchaste, unclean,
     undutiful, ungodly, ungood, unrighteous, unsaintly, unspiritual,
     unvirtuous, vanished, virtueless, wanton, wayward, weak,
     wound up
  
  

  a. 过去的,堕落的,转归他人的;

     a. 过去的,堕落的,转归他人的