lapsing

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

I fought well,--how well the lapsing of oaths and laughter into breathless silence bore witness. — Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools: Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists, Unknown
Merely a grunt of satisfaction; perhaps a brief, "Ey, ma--back?" and then a contented lapsing into slumber.) — The best short stories of 1919, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
I hear the dance-music of all nations, The waltz, some delicious measure, lapsing, bathing me in bliss, The bolero to tinkling guitars and clattering castanets. — Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

backsliding, lapse, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting

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