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A failure to maintain a higher state
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relapsing
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Relapsing \Re*laps"ing\, a. Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a failure to maintain a higher state [syn: backsliding , lapse , lapsing , relapse , reversion , reverting ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) relapse vb. (present participle of relapse English)
Usage examples of relapsing.
After relapsing, work hard to avoid or to prepare for your next lapse.
When the new converts had been enrolled in the number of the faithful, and were admitted to the sacraments of the church, they found themselves restrained from relapsing into their past disorders by another consideration of a less spiritual, but of a very innocent and respectable nature.
Mr Turnbull, relapsing into the language he associated with sophistication in matters of the heart.
Lady Maud, relapsing rather prematurely into the language of the nursery.
He slouched back again in his chair, relapsing for several minutes into brooding silence, while Marston found an excuse for lingering in carefully aligning the several pieces of plate set out on the sideboard.