Synonyms of the word

lapsing

• v. present participle of lapse.

backsliding

• v. present participle of backslide.
• adj. sliding back.
• n. An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.

failure

• n. State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
• n. An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success.
• n. Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function, breakdown.

lapse

• n. A temporary failure; a slip.
• n. A decline or fall in standards.
• n. A pause in continuity.
• n. An interval of time between events.
• n. A termination of a right etc, through disuse or neglect.
• n. (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer…
• n. (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator,…
• n. (theology) A fall or apostasy.
• v. (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
• v. (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
• v. To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
• v. (intransitive) To become void.
• v. To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence,…

relapse

• v. (intransitive) To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.
• v. (intransitive, medicine, of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated.
• v. To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.
• n. The act or situation of relapsing.
• n. (medicine) An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement.
• n. (obsolete) One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.

relapsing

• v. present participle of relapse.
• n. (archaic) A relapse.

reversion

• n. The action of reverting something.
• n. The action of returning to a former condition or practice; reversal.
• n. The fact of being turned the reverse way.
• n. The action of turning something the reverse way.
• n. (law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
• n. (law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
• n. (law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
• n. The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
• n. The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
• n. A sum payable on a person's death.

reverting

• v. present participle of revert.