a slight error, e.g. of memory or in manners

a security lapse

a fall or decline, esp a moral fall or decline

a continuous passage or elapsed period; an interval

after a lapse of several years

in law, the termination of a right or privilege through failure to exercise it

an abandonment of religious faith

to go out of existence or use; to cease

Our friendship lapsed when we left college

to become invalid, e.g. because of omission or negligence

She had let her membership lapse

to abandon a religion or doctrine

Nelly Mahone, who had lapsed from her native religion on religious grounds — Muriel Spark

said of time: to run its course; to pass