intransitive verb. To return to a former state.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To become sicker after partial recovery from an illness.

intransitive verb. To recur. Used of an illness.

intransitive verb. To slip back into bad ways; backslide.

noun. A return to a former state, especially after apparent improvement.

To slip or slide back; return.

To fall back; return to a former bad state or practice; backslide: as, to relapse into vice or error after amendment.

To fall back from recovery or a convalescent state.

noun. A sliding or falling back, particularly into a former evil state.

noun. One who has refallen into vice or error; specifically, one who returns into error after having recanted it.

noun. In medicine, the return of a disease or symptom during or directly after convalescence. See recrudescence.

noun. A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.

noun. One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.

intransitive verb. To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.

intransitive verb. To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; ; -- sometimes in a good sense.

intransitive verb. To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.

verb. To fall back again.

verb. To recur; to worsen, be aggravated.

noun. The act or situation of relapsing.

noun. One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.

verb. deteriorate in health

noun. a failure to maintain a higher state

verb. go back to bad behavior

"There was no looking at watches, no stifled yawning, no uneasy change of position, no watching the clock; strangers visiting the chapel listened, at first, from real interest, with a feeling that by-and-by they would relapse into their usual listlessness, but before they had time to _relapse_, behold the sermon was done."

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