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re·laps·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, revertingnoun

    a failure to maintain a higher state

Wiktionary

  1. relapsingnoun

    relapse

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  1. relapsing

    Relapsing refers to the act of returning to a previous undesirable state or condition, especially in the context of falling back into a harmful habit or behavior such as drug addiction or mental illness after a period of improvement or recovery.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Relapsing

    of Relapse

  2. Relapsingadjective

    marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state

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Anagrams for relapsing »

  1. spanglier

  2. presignal

  3. espringal

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of relapsing in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of relapsing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of relapsing in a Sentence

  1. Catherine Barber:

    My kid is going through a crisis, or my spouse is relapsing with their opioid problem. Now’s the time to store my gun elsewhere. I think that’s a more productive approach because when you just go down the road of legislation, everyone gets angry and starts taking sides.

  2. Dan Kelly:

    One case reminds me of Pauline but we were unable to find a laboratory willing to test the patient before the patient died, in West Africa it (relapsing Ebola) is mostly undiagnosed, hardly treated and people are certainly dying of it.

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