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# lapsed

«lapsed» in Mova's school dictionary: **If something has lapsed, it has come to an end because it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb past form of lapse (lapse, lapses, lapsed, lapsing); adjective (lapsed)

### meaning for a pupil

1) If something has lapsed, it has come to an end because it was not renewed in time, like a membership or passport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lapsed/#m1)

2) A lapsed member or believer is one who used to belong or believe but no longer does. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lapsed/#m2)

3) Lapsed into something means slowly slipped into a state: lapsed into silence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lapsed/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday and formal life: a lapsed library card, lapsed insurance. In stories: the room lapsed into silence. Phrases: lapsed membership, lapsed into, a lapsed Catholic.

### examples

- My library membership lapsed because I forgot to renew it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lapsed/#x1)
- Her passport had lapsed, so she couldn't travel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lapsed/#x2)
- The class lapsed into silence when the head walked in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lapsed/#x3)
- He is a lapsed football fan who no longer watches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lapsed/#x4)
- The insurance lapsed when the payments stopped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lapsed/#x5)
- The patient lapsed into sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lapsed/#x6)

### note

Noun: a lapse (a short failure, like a lapse of memory, or a gap in time). Do not confuse with "elapsed" (time that has passed): "Ten minutes elapsed."

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lapsed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lapsed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.