All 5 Uses of
relapse
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Smerdyakov was always inquiring, putting certain indirect but obviously premeditated questions, but what his object was he did not explain, and usually at the most important moment he would break off and relapse into silence or pass to another subject.†
Chpt 5relapse = return to an undesirable previous condition
- "I'm not hindering them, pani," said the Pole in the wig, with a long look at Grushenka, and relapsing into dignified silence he sucked his pipe again.†
Chpt 8relapsing = returning to an undesirable previous condition
- He relapsed into gloomy silence.†
Chpt 9 *relapsed = returned to an undesirable previous condition
- Kolya looked sternly at the luckless dog, who relapsed again into obedient rigidity.†
Chpt 10
- The court relapsed into silence at once.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
to return to an undesirable previous condition -- especially illness, addiction, or bad behavior