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Past :: Past (v.) Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences..

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

Recadency :: Recadency (n.) A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.

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

Lability :: Lability (n.) Liability to lapse, err, or apostatize..

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

Senescent :: Senescent (a.) Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.

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.

Prolapsion :: Prolapsion (n.) Prolapse.

Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack..

Collapsed :: Collapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Collaps.

Collapsion :: Collapsion (n.) Collapse.

Fall :: Fall (n.) Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels..

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

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

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..

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

Lapse :: Lapse (v. t.) To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender..

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

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..

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