lapsing

Plural: lapsings

Noun

• a failure to maintain a higher state
• The act or process by which something lapses.

Verb

• pass into a specified state or condition
• end, at least for a long time
• drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
• go back to bad behavior
• let slip
• pass by
• present participle and gerund of lapse

Synonyms

backslide, backsliding, elapse, fall back, glide by, go along, go by, lapse, pass, recidivate, regress, relapse, relapsing, retrogress, reversion, reverting, sink, slide by, slip away, slip by