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What does the word lapse mean?

Part of speech: verb intransitive

To pass gradually; glide; slip; to pass out of possession, as a title to property; become void.

Part of speech: noun

A slipping or passing away; failure; error.

Usage examples for lapse

This estimate, after the lapse of considerably more than half a century, still, on the whole, stands good. – Beautiful Europe - Belgium by Joseph E. Morris
Major Hockin exclaimed, and then colored with remembering that rather he should have let my lapse pass. – Erema My Father's Sin by R. D. Blackmore
It is not possible after such a lapse of time. – Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope