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Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance..

Prolapse :: Prolapse (v. i.) To fall down or out; to protrude.

Lapse :: 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.

Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.

Elapse :: Elapse (v. i.) To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time..

Prolapsus :: Prolapsus (n.) Prolapse.

Backset :: Backset (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.

Algidity :: Algidity (n.) coldness and collapse.

Relapse :: Relapse (v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again..

Progression :: Progression (n.) Course; passage; lapse or process of time.

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

Supralapsarian :: Supralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. Infralapsarian..

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 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..

Circumduce :: Circumduce (v. t.) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence..

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed..

Decurrence :: Decurrence (n.) The act of running down; a lapse.

Lapsed :: Lapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Laps.

Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel..

Lapsible :: Lapsible (a.) Liable to lapse.

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