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Relapses vs Relapsers - What's the difference?

relapses | relapsers |

As a verb relapses

is third-person singular of relapse.

As a noun relapsers is

plural of relapser.

relapses

English

Verb

(head)
  • (relapse)
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    relapse

    English

    Verb

    (relaps)
  • To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
  • (intransitive, medicine, of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated.
  • To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.
  • (Dryden)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or situation of relapsing.
  • Alas! from what high hope to what relapse / Unlooked for are we fallen! — Milton.
  • (medicine) An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement
  • (obsolete) One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.
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    relapsers

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    Noun

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