1. No longer active or practising
   "a lapsed Catholic"
   - nonchurchgoing

1. Pass into a specified state or condition
   - sink, pass 
2. End, at least for a long time
   "The correspondence lapsed" 
3. Drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
   - backslide 
4. Go back to bad behaviour
   - relapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back 
5. Let slip
   "He lapsed his membership" 
6. Pass by
   - elapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along

See also: irreligious

Type of: advance, cease, drop away, drop off, end, fall away, finish, forego, forfeit, forgo, give up, go on, march on, move, move on, pass on, progress, regress, retrovert, return, revert, slip, stop, terminate, throw overboard, turn back, waive

Encyclopedia: Lapse

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