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Synonyms:
- obliviousness, go along, draw to a close/an end, stumble, screwup, drop dead, top, hap, run out, spend, slip, preoccupation, dry up, befuddlement, cooling-off period, perish, give, backsliding, drop off, pass away, clinker, exceed, ending, recess, drop down, slip away, closedown, give-up the ghost, superintendence, devolve, increase, oversight, stoppage, sneak off, cash in one's chips, crash, retrograde, check, age, rot, happen, period, snuff it, turn over, boo-boo, deteriorate, fade away, fall out, reverse, conclusion, detachment, sneak out, lead, reverting, supervision, cutoff, discontinuance, setback, breakdown, go down, bate, gaffe, recurrence, pop off, span, thoughtlessness, go past, flub, move, excrete, turnaround, interruption, make it, negligence, revert, interval, inobservance, take place, vanish, retrogress, unconcern, continue, wane, forgetfulness, discontinuation, overstep, degradation, wilt, keep, conk, boob, slacken, mistake, occur, glide, let up, collapse, absence, offset, dreaminess, error, recession, turn back, slither, intermission, shutdown, goof, cease, aggravation, dawdle, misstep, worsen, tergiversate, ease, carelessness, settle, retrovert, fall behind, eternity, egest, fluff, duration, absent-mindedness, overhaul, dilapidate, regress, extend, pass by, arrestment, regression, turnabout, lose, disappear, run, legislate, surpass, go across, perversion, stop, heedlessness, sneak away, play along, go through, resort, lapsing, fall back, aloofness, fall apart, reversion, inaccuracy, kick the bucket, lag, terminate, go by, die, steal away, ebb, slipup, incuriosity, era, fault, bury, aeon, blunder, travel by, glissade, halt, contamination, degenerate, fade, cessation, disregard, slide, pass, go under, transcend, guide, distraction, bobble, retrogression, authorize, sink, moderate, knock, closure, fall, expire, decease, glide by, gaff, communicate, apathy, disinterestedness, throwback, termination, downgrade, go on, stay, abate, debacle, return, finish, slide by, relapse, fumble, get worse, pass off, indifference, decay, brick, exit, slack off, decline, better, reach, interlude, make pass, come about, pass on, retroversion, relapsing, unconsciousness, pass along, evanesce, elapse, wreckage, backslide, authorise, slip by, eliminate, clanger, give out, supervising, time, slump, subside, pause, trip, go, fleet, arrest, reversal, failure, malfunction, evaporate, shutoff, forever, lack of interest, recidivation, choke, atavism, proceed, croak, put across, repetition, moulder, dip, fall off, draw, hand, disregardfulness, recur, expiration, surcease, wither, drop, inadvertence, come to an end, recede, blow over, recidivate, inattention, go away, descent, remit, slide down, dissolve, clear, buy the farm, overtake, close, putrefy, miscue, law, delay, break, fiasco, atrophy, go downhill
Examples:
- - After the lapse of half an hour the silence was broken by a noise of carriage wheels on the public road in front, and a ring at the bell. - "Man and Wife", Wilkie Collins
- - The sorry streets of to- day will disappear within a dozen years, and the instant they are gone, or seen just at the moment of the final lapse, they have passed into the realm of romance. - "From the Easy Chair, series 3", George William Curtis
- - Lapse of time cannot make it commonplace or cheap. - "Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens", Albert Bigelow Paine Last Updated: February 20, 2009
Antonyms:
- accuracy, prolongation, continuation, extension, preciseness, precision, infallibility, exactitude, strictness, inerrancy, continuance, perfection, status quo, persistence, exactness, correctness
