Lapse
Lapse verb - To come to an end.
Run
How words are described
| long | long lapse | long run |
| brief | brief lapse | brief run |
| short | short lapse | short run |
| single | single lapse | single run |
| Other adjectives: serious, little, easy, comic, recent. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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They attend trade union meetings and communist dance gatherings but neither of them actually care about the issues and eventually they lapse back and become the idle rich who sit back while fascists run the country.
Source: Film / Novecento -
He also quietly let the "goofy old gal" characterization brought back by the Byrne run lapse into the past.
Source: Comic Book / JMS' Spider-Man
Cite this Source
Run and Lapse. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lapse/run
Lapse & Run. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/lapse/run>.
Run or Lapse. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/lapse/run.
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