lapse

/læps/ verb [I]

Translation

› If an arrangement lapses, it stops existing because of the amount of time that has passed.

zamanı geçmek, zaman aşımına uğramak

The guarantee lapsed after two years. I've allowed my membership to lapse.1556

lapse into sth phrasal verb

› If you lapse into something, you change to a different, and usually bad, condition.

girmek, gömülmek, düşmek

to lapse into silence He suffered a heart attack and then lapsed into a coma.782

(Definition of lapse verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

to express disagreement or refuse to do something

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