Definition of Lapsing

Noun: lapsing lap-sing

A failure to maintain a higher state
- backsliding, lapse, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting

Verb: lapse laps

Pass into a specified state or condition
"He lapsed into nirvana";
- sink, pass
End, at least for a long time
"The correspondence lapsed"
Drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
"Conservatives worry about McCain's lapse on immigration";
- backslide
Go back to bad behaviour
- relapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back
Let slip
"He lapsed his membership"
Become later by the passage of a given amount of time
"three years lapsed";
- elapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along