Lapsing [verb]
Definition of Lapsing:
become void; fall back into previous pattern
Synonyms of Lapsing:
● Elapse
● Go by
● Relapse
● Recede
● Expire
● Cease
● Descend
● Subside
● Run out
● Decline
● Return
● Die
● Revert
● Slide
● Slip
● Pass
● End
● Weaken
Opposite/Antonyms of Lapsing:
● Continue
● Live
● Take
● Accept
● Develop
● Rise
● Start
● Initiate
● Begin
● Restart
● Go on
● Grow
● Improve
● Commence
● Increase
Sentence/Example of Lapsing:
This lapsing will be arrested by any fresh deposit, by any fresh notice or by any fresh entry of interest in the deposit-book.
It is hard to appreciate and to live up to them, and hence they are always lapsing out of view, and requiring to be rediscovered.
Of the metals, the production of copper is a lapsing industry, confined to Cornwall.
He managed to jerk his gun free, but his brain was already lapsing into unconsciousness.
Lapsing again into rueful speculation, he tried desperately to devise some means of regaining his liberty.
But he heard nothing save the low lapsing sound of the water, and the monotonous simmer of the trees.
In quickly lapsing phrases she told me how the trouble had begun.
Yes, resumed Jean as she flapped the reins upon Baltie who seemed to be lapsing into a dreamy frame of mind.
She felt frozen, her limbs were like lead, and her mind was wandering, or lapsing into unconsciousness.
But I am lapsing into an educational dissertation, and must hasten back to colonial school-work.