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Relapsing :: Relapsing (a.) Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.

Lapse :: 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..

Prolapse :: Prolapse (n.) The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum..

Weed :: Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed..

Collapse :: Collapse (n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance..

Instauration :: Instauration (n.) Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance..

Hypostrophe :: Hypostrophe (n.) A relapse, or return of a disease..

Relief :: Relief (n.) A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant..

Cropper :: Cropper (n.) A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse..

Lapse :: 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..

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide..

Failing :: Failing (n.) A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing..

Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses..

Relapsed :: Relapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Relaps.

Recidivous :: Recidivous (a.) Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.

Proctocele :: Proctocele (n.) Inversion and prolapse of the mucous coat of the rectum, from relaxation of the sphincter, with more or less swelling; prolapsus ani..

Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.

Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.

Relapser :: Relapser (n.) One who relapses.

Delapsed :: Delapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Delaps.

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