Antonyms for re-lapse
Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : verb ri-laps; noun ri-laps, ree-laps |
Phonetic Transcription : verb rɪˈlæps; noun rɪˈlæps, ˈri læps |
- accept
- accomplishment
- achieve
- achievement
- activate
- advance
- aggravate
- agitate
- aid
- animate
- ascend
- ascent
- assist
- attain
- begin
- betterment
- brave
- build
- build up
- cause
- clean
- climb
- commence
- compliment
- continue
- continuity
- defense
- develop
- development
- encourage
- energize
- enhance
- enlarge
- excite
- expand
- extend
- fight
- flight
- float
- flourish
- forge
- forward
- free
- get better
- go on
- go up
- good health
- grow
- growth
- halt
- heal
- healing
- health
- healthiness
- help
- hold
- improve
- improvement
- incite
- increase
- initiate
- invigorate
- keep
- laud
- live
- lose
- make well
- order
- overcome
- overthrow
- perfection
- persist
- praise
- progress
- prolong
- protection
- purify
- question
- raise
- reach
- refresh
- remain
- reprisal
- resistance
- restart
- retreat
- rise
- say yes
- scale
- shelter
- shield
- stagnate
- start
- stay
- stop
- straighten
- strength
- strengthen
- strengthening
- submission
- succeed
- success
- support
- surrender
- sustenance
- take
- upgrade
- well-being
- wellness
- win
Definition of re-lapse
Origin :- early 15c., "renounce;" 1560s, "fall into a former state," from Latin relapsus, past participle of relabi "slip back, slide back, sink back," from re- "back" (see re-) + labi "to slip" (see lapse (n.)). Related: Relapsed; relapsing.
- As in lapse : noun backsliding
- As in attack : noun sudden dysfunction or disorder
- As in reaction : noun political conservativism
- As in relapse : noun deterioration, weakening
- As in reversion : noun return to a former state
- As in backset : noun setback
- As in recidivation : noun lapse
- As in recidivism : noun lapse
- As in regression : noun reversion
- As in retrogradation : noun reversion
- As in decline : noun lessening
- As in illness : noun disease; bad health
- As in lapse : verb become void; fall back into previous pattern
- As in backslide : verb go astray
- As in regress : verb return to earlier way of doing things
- As in relapse : verb deteriorate, weaken
- As in revert : verb return to an earlier, less-developed condition
- As in sink : verb fall, decrease
- As in turn : verb reverse; change course
- As in weaken : verb reduce the strength of
- As in reoccur : verb return
- As in decline : verb lessen, become less
- As in fall : verb descend; become lower
Synonyms for re-lapse
- abate
- abatement
- about-face
- access
- adulterate
- affliction
- ailing
- ailment
- aim
- alter
- alternate
- apostatize
- atavism
- attack
- backlash
- backslide
- backsliding
- be overcome
- be overtaken
- be precipitated
- become obsolete
- bout
- break down
- break up
- breakdown
- buckle
- bug
- call off
- capsize
- cascade
- cave in
- cease
- change
- change position
- cheapen
- collapse
- come back
- comedown
- complaint
- confinement
- convalescence
- convert
- convulsion
- counterrevolution
- crash
- cripple
- cropper
- crumble
- curve
- cut
- debase
- debilitate
- decadence
- decay
- declension
- decline
- decrease
- decrepitude
- degeneracy
- degenerate
- degeneration
- depart
- depreciate
- depress
- descend
- descent
- deteriorate
- deterioration
- detour
- detract
- deviate
- devitalize
- devolution
- die
- digress
- dilute
- diminish
- diminution
- dip
- direct
- disability
- disappointment
- discouragement
- disease
- diseasedness
- disimprove
- disintegrate
- disorder
- dissolution
- disturbance
- dive
- diverge
- dose
- double back
- downfall
- downgrade
- downturn
- drag
- droop
- drop
- drop down
- dwindle
- dwindling
- ease
- ease up
- ebb
- ebbing
- elapse
- end
- enervate
- enfeeblement
- exhaust
- expire
- face about
- fade
- fail
- failing
- failing health
- failure
- faint
- fall
- fall away
- fall back
- fall from grace
- fall off
- fall off the wagon
- falling off
- fit
- flag
- flip-flop
- flop
- flu
- fold up
- give way
- go back
- go by
- go down
- go downhill
- go to pot
- go to the dogs
- gravitate
- halt
- hark back
- hit the dirt
- hit the skids
- ill health
- illness
- impair
- impoverish
- incline
- indisposition
- infirmity
- invalidate
- inverse
- invert
- keel over
- land
- languish
- lapse
- leave the straight and narrow
- lessen
- limp
- loop
- lose
- lose ground
- lose spirit
- lose value
- loss
- lower
- malady
- malaise
- meltdown
- minimize
- mitigate
- moderate
- move
- nose-dive
- obscurantism
- on the skids
- paroxysm
- pass
- pine
- pitch
- pivot
- plummet
- plunge
- poor health
- pratfall
- prostration
- react
- recede
- recession
- rechannel
- recidivate
- recidivation
- recidivism
- recoil
- recrudesce
- recur
- recurrence
- redirect
- reduce
- regress
- regression
- relapse
- relax
- repetition
- resume
- retrace
- retreat
- retrenchment
- retrogradation
- retrograde
- retrogress
- retrogression
- return
- reversal
- reverse
- reversion
- revert
- reverting
- right
- right wing
- roll back
- rot
- run out
- sag
- sap
- seizure
- senility
- setback
- settle
- sheer
- shift
- shrink
- shunt
- shy away
- sicken
- sickness
- sidetrack
- sin
- sink
- skids
- slide
- slide back
- slip
- slip back
- slope
- slow down
- slump
- soften
- spasm
- spell
- spin
- status quo
- stroke
- stumble
- subside
- subvert
- suffer
- sway
- swerve
- swing
- swirl
- switch
- syndrome
- tack
- take a header
- take up where left off
- temper
- terminate
- thin
- thin out
- throe
- throw back
- throwback
- tip over
- tire
- topple
- Toryism
- totter
- trail
- transform
- transpose
- tremble
- trip
- tumble
- turn
- turn back
- turn for the worse
- twist
- undermine
- unhealth
- upset
- vary
- veer
- virus
- vitiate
- volte-face
- wane
- waning
- water down
- weaken
- weakening
- what's going around
- wheel
- whip
- whirl
- wilt
- withdrawal
- worsen
- worsening
- zigzag
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