Backsliding: alternatives and connections

Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

of Lapse

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To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

of Relapse

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The act of returning, or coming back; return.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

of Revert

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.