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relapse
[ verb ri-laps; noun ri-laps, ree-laps ]
verb (used without object)
- to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.:
to relapse into silence.
- to fall back into illness after convalescence or apparent recovery.
- to fall back into vice, wrongdoing, or error; backslide:
to relapse into heresy.
noun
- an act or instance of relapsing.
- a return of a disease or illness after partial recovery from it.
relapse
verb
- to lapse back into a former state or condition, esp one involving bad habits
- to become ill again after apparent recovery
noun
- the act or an instance of relapsing
- the return of ill health after an apparent or partial recovery
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Derived Forms
- reˈlapser, noun
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Other Words From
- re·lapsa·ble adjective
- re·lapser noun
- unre·lapsing adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of relapse1
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Example Sentences
Will she have a terrible relapse and turn to her pal/sometime fling Vause for help?
In 59 percent of those cases, the relapse occurred within the first week.
According to a 2010 study, over 90 percent of those with opioid addiction relapse in the first year.
In the absence of chemotherapy, there was an 80 percent chance of relapse.
However, as the recent and unpredicted actions in Crimea remind us, there is always a chance of relapse.
It reappears during a relapse, and thus helps to distinguish between a relapse and a complication, in which it does not reappear.
Patients might very well recover their mental sensibility after even a severe attack, and never have a relapse.
When I left her she had altogether recovered from the relapse.
No time, however, was given in which I could relapse into self-consciousness.
They drain off the liquor, and presently relapse into quiet.
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