- Wall Street Journal Crossword
- December 11 2023
- Failure of concentration
Failure of concentration
We have found the following answers matching the query 'Failure of concentration' in our database: For more stats and recent usage scroll down and continue reading. Failure of concentration crossword clue was last seen on December 11 2023 in the popular Wall Street Journal Crossword.
| Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher | | 99% | LAPSE | Failure of concentration | Wall Street Journal |
Definition
| • | A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses. |
| • | A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude. |
| • | The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege. |
| • | A fall or apostasy. |
| • | To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses. |
| • | To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake. |
| • | To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc. |
| • | To become ineffectual or void; to fall. |
| • | To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass. |
| • | To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender. |
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