See Also: Relapse(medicine)
Relapse(health)
relapse(1)(dictionary)
relapse(2)(dictionary)
RELAPSE(law)
testicular relapse(medicine)
relapse 1, verb(dictionary)
relapse 2, noun(dictionary)

relapse(2) (iou)



relapse verb. LME.
[Latin relaps- pa. ppl stem of relabi, formed as RE- + labi slip.]
verb trans. Renounce, leave off, (an evil practice). Only in LME.
verb intrans. Fall back into wrongdoing; spec. fall back into heresy after recantation; backslide. (Foll. by into, to.) L15.
P. L. Fermor The country was on the point of relapsing into heathen barbarism.
verb intrans. Experience a return of an illness after partial or apparently complete recovery. M16.
relapsing fever an infectious disease characterized by recurrent fever, caused by spirochaetes of the genus Borrelia and transmitted by lice and ticks.
A. Wilson At the end of a week she became herself again, only relapsing when Kay's accident was mentioned.
verb intrans. Fall back or sink again into any state, practice, etc. (Foll. by into.) L16.
P. Fitzgerald She seemed to have relapsed into her old sloth.
verb trans. Cause to relapse. M17-L18.
relapser noun a person who relapses, esp. into wrongdoing E17.