- NYT Crossword
- May 20 2024
- Oversight
Oversight
While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Oversight crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on May 20 2024 NYT Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Oversight has a total of 5 letters.
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1. The first letter of the answer is: L
2. The last letter of the answer is: E
3. There are 2 vowels in the hidden word:
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. |
The word LAPSE is a 5 letter word that has 1 syllable's. The syllable division for LAPSE is: lapse
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