Crossword-Solution: LAPSE 5 letters, 317 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Lapse	n.	A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
Lapse	n.	A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
Lapse	n.	The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege.
Lapse	n.	A fall or apostasy.
Lapse	v. i.	To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses.
Lapse	v. i.	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.
Lapse	v. i.	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.
Lapse	v. i.	To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
Lapse	v. t.	To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.
Lapse	v. t.	To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
LAPSE	anagram	ALPES, ELAPS, LEAPS, PALES, PEALS, PELAS, PLEAS, SALEP, SEPAL, SPALE

We have 317 clues for the answer “LAPSE”

Clue	Answers
"A Momentary ___ of Reason" (1987 Pink Floyd album)	1 answer
"A Momentary ___ of Reason" (Pink Floyd)	1 answer
A ___ in judgment	1 answer
A failing in duty.	1 answer
Accidental decline	1 answer
Accidental gap	1 answer
Bit of bad judgment	1 answer
Brain fade	1 answer
Break (in concentration)	1 answer
Break in memory	1 answer
Break in usage	1 answer
Careless decline	1 answer
Come to an end, as a magazine subscription	1 answer
Come to an end, like a subscription	1 answer
Concentration gap	1 answer
Concentration problem	1 answer
Disuse Fall into	1 answer
Don't get renewed	1 answer
Dropping the ball, so to speak	1 answer
End, as a magazine subscription	1 answer
Error in judgment	1 answer
Expire, as a membership	1 answer
Expire, as a policy	1 answer
Expire, as an insurance policy	1 answer
Expire, like a magazine subscription	1 answer
Expire, like a subscription	1 answer
Fail to maintain a standard, etc.	1 answer
Failure of concentration	1 answer
Failure of judgment	1 answer
Fall back into one's old ways	1 answer
Fall from the faith	1 answer
Fall from usual standard	1 answer
Fall from virtue.	1 answer
Gap, as in judgment	1 answer
Gap, as in time	1 answer
Go unrenewed	1 answer
Inattentive error	1 answer
Inattentive goof	1 answer
Inattentive period	1 answer
Instance of forgetfulness	1 answer
Instance of inattention	1 answer
Instance of zoning out	1 answer
It can befall memory or judgment	1 answer
Judgment problem	1 answer
Judgment slip-up	1 answer
Legal termination	1 answer
Little slip-up	1 answer
Loss of diligence	1 answer
Memory blank	1 answer
Memory failure	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TEERA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with LAPSE (5)

Justly thou abhorr’st That Son, who on the quiet state of men Such trouble brought, affecting to subdue Rational Libertie; yet know withall, Since thy original lapse, true Libertie Is lost, which alwayes with right Reason dwells Twinn’d, and from her hath no dividual being: Reason in man obscur’d, or not obeyd, Immediately inordinate desires And upstart Passions catch the Government From Reason, and to servitude reduce Man till then free.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

Here, after the lapse of a few minutes, several more fell down, and lay helpless and livid as the rest.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Doubtless, however, either of these stern and black-browed Puritans would have thought it quite a sufficient retribution for his sins that, after so long a lapse of years, the old trunk of the family tree, with so much venerable moss upon it, should have borne, as its topmost bough, an idler like myself.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

With true French contempt of the Jew, which has survived the lapse of centuries even to this day, he would not go too near him, but said with biting sarcasm, as the wretched old man was brought in full light of the moon by the two soldiers,— “I suppose now, that being a Jew, you have a good memory for bargains?” “Answer!” he again commanded, as the Jew with trembling lips seemed too frightened to speak.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with LAPSE (3)

Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrisetill noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sing around orflitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in atmy west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distanthighway, I was reminded of the lapse of time. I grew in those seasonslike corn in the night, and th…

Henry David Thoreau Walden

It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refus…

Christopher Hitchens Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I'd been given. I hoped God hadn't noticed my lapse in appreciation.

Charlaine Harris Dead and Gone

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 526 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).