different between relapse vs relapsing

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???læps/, /??i??læps/
• Rhymes: -æps

Verb

relapse (third-person singular simple present relapses, present participle relapsing, simple past and past participle relapsed)

1. (intransitive) To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.

2. (intransitive, medicine, of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated (after a period of improvement).
3. To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.

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Hyponyms

• (to fall back into a former state or practice): fall off the wagon

Translations

Noun

relapse (plural relapses)

1. The act or situation of relapsing.
2. (medicine) An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement
3. (obsolete) One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.

Translations

Further reading

• relapse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• relapse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• relapse at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Leapers, Perales, leapers, pleaser, presale, repeals

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -apse

Adjective

relapse

1. feminine plural of relapso

Noun

relapse f pl

1. plural of relapsa

Latin

Participle

rel?pse

1. vocative masculine singular of rel?psus

English

Verb

relapsing

1. present participle of relapse

Noun

relapsing (plural relapsings)

1. (archaic) A relapse.
   • 1822, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal (volume 6, page 10)

     […] the silent grief beyond the power of words—the generous consolations of the noble sister—the shrinkings of the poor criminal, and his relapsings into a gentler penitence […]

Anagrams

• espringal, graplines, pearlings, prealigns, presignal, rapelings, spanglier