lose

[Lose]

The verb to lose means something has gone missing. Maybe it's your car keys. Maybe it's points in a game. Maybe it's the love of your life. Sorry about that.

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To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle.

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be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation"

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fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war"

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retreat

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place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses"

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suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"

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fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"

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allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"

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miss from one''s possessions; lose sight of; "I''ve lost my glasses again!"

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fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"

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fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"

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fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year"


v. t.
To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle.

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To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health.

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Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction.

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To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way.

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To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge.

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To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.

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To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said.

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To cause to part with; to deprive of.

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To prevent from gaining or obtaining.

v. i.
To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest.


Lose

Lose , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Losing .] [OE. losien to loose, be lost, lose, AS. losian to become loose; akin to OE. leosen to lose, p. p. loren, lorn, AS. le'a2san, p. p. loren (in comp.), D. verliezen, G. verlieren, Dan. forlise, Sw. f'94rlisa, f'94rlora, Goth. fraliusan, also to E. loose, a & v., L. luere to loose, Gr. , Skr. l to cut. &root;127. Cf. Analysis, Palsy, Solve, Forlorn, Leasing, Loose, Loss.] 1. To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle.
Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite dove.
2. To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health.
If the salt hath lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted ?
3. Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction.
The unhappy have but hours, and these they lose.
4. To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way.
He hath lost his fellows.
5. To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
6. To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.
Like following life thro' creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
. 7. To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said.
He shall in no wise lose his reward.
I fought the battle bravely which I lost, And lost it but to Macedonians.
8. To cause to part with; to deprive of. [R.]
How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves with so much passion ?
9. To prevent from gaining or obtaining.
O false heart ! thou hadst almost betrayed me to eternal flames, and lost me this glory.
To lose ground, to fall behind; to suffer gradual loss or disadvantage. -- To lose heart, to lose courage; to become timid. "The mutineers lost heart." Macaulay. -- To lose one's head, to be thrown off one's balance; to lose the use of one's good sense or judgment.
In the excitement of such a discovery, many scholars lost their heads.
-- To lose one's self. (a) To forget or mistake the bearing of surrounding objects; as, to lose one's self in a great city. (b) To have the perceptive and rational power temporarily suspended; as, we lose ourselves in sleep. -- To lose sight of. (a) To cease to see; as, to lose sight of the land. (b) To overlook; to forget; to fail to perceive; as, he lost sight of the issue.

Lose

Lose , v. i. To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest.
We 'll . . . hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out.

To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle.

To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest.

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Usage Examples

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

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