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"Fall back into illness"

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7 lettersPronunciation /ɹɪˈlæps/Part of speech noun, verbSorted aeelprsStarts with REnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a failure to maintain a higher state

Word origin

From Latin relapsus, past participle of relabi (“to slide back, fall back”), from re- (“back”) + labi (“to slip, slide, fall”).

Used in a sentence

  • He has improved recently but keeps relapsing into states of utter confusion.
  • to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism
  • to relapse into slumber after being disturbed

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