Word Finder - lose

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To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons.

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He lost his hearing in the explosion.

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To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.

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I lost my way in the forest.

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To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc).

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We lost the football match.

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To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.

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Mission control lost the satellite as its signal died down.

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To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.

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We managed to lose our pursuers in the forest.

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To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).

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To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.

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When we get into the building, please lose the hat.

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Of a clock, to run slower than expected.

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It's already 5:30? My watch must have lost a few minutes.

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(ditransitive) To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.

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To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.

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I lost a part of what he said.

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To cause to part with; to deprive of.

I lose some cattle every year.

I won't lose you again.

I lose to the others but win from you.

What could he do about it but lose more sleep?

Tonight, I lose him forever.

I didn't want to lose you, but I didn't want you to be unhappy like mother either.

I concluded that if I reported to your Serene Highness you might send me away or say that you knew what I was reporting, but then I shouldn't lose anything...

Do you lose many cattle to wolves?

They must understand that we can only lose by taking the offensive.

You are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign.

If you win or lose, let it be on purpose.

He was about to lose all hope.

Damian was not one to lose control.

She'll lose those, too.

I don't lose deals, Wynn.

How did you lose your deal? she asked Zamon.

Don't lose faith in yourself.

I don't want to lose this feisty little jewel.

He did not lose sight either of the welfare of his army or of the doings of the enemy, or of the welfare of the people of Russia, or of the direction of affairs in Paris, or of diplomatic considerations concerning the terms of the anticipated peace.

But he doesn't lose, does he?

The tumultuous storm was beginning to lose some of its fury.

Then he made a sign to someone, and the torturing pain in his abdomen caused Prince Andrew to lose consciousness.

The pain caused by his removal into the hut had made him groan aloud and again lose consciousness.

I didn't lose either of you!

But how did one misplace or lose millions?

If you have everything you have ever wanted, you have less to gain and more to lose by invading your neighbor.

Bolkonski only tried not to lose touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was happening in front of him.

Maybe he knew he was about to lose a good housekeeper.

It was so hard to lose him, he was the best and kindest of friends, and I do not know what we shall do without him....

I don't want to lose her and there's no way I'll endanger what we're doing.

Then you lose before you begin.

You weren't about to take a chance that you lose her, Gabriel said, sounding baffled.

The pain she was in or the situation where she might lose her soul in three days.

If a million people lose their jobs to a machine, then entrepreneurs start businesses that hire those people to do other things.

In the formation of these the tissues break down, and in course of time lose their characteristic histological features.

Hence the second clock will gain or lose on the other.

Would misfortune make my Russians lose heart?...

He didn't lose at battle.

It was stupid of me to lose it and act like a school kid.

But when she touched the mainland she at once became possessed of a frontier which could be attacked, and found herself compelled either to expand in self-defence or to lose the territory she had acquired.

It is a peculiarity of the cotton-plant to lose a great many of its blooms and bolls.

The crusading states had been founded by adventurers who thirsted for gain; and the primitive appetite did not lose its edge with the progress of time.

That bread and wine should become flesh and blood and yet not lose the properties of bread and wine was, he held, contradictory to reason, and therefore irreconcilable with the truthfulness of God.

The imams do not form a priestly sect; they generally have other occupations, such as teaching in a school or keeping a shop, and may at any time be dismissed by the warden, in which case they lose the title of imam.

Bloodhounds quest slowly and carefully, and when they lose the scent cast backwards until they recover the original trail and make a fresh attempt to follow it.

His writings, which are chiefly theological and controversial, are largely formed of charges to his clergy, and sermons on different topics; but, though valuable and full of thought, they lose some of their force by the cumbrous German structure of the sentences, and by certain orthographical peculiarities in which the author indulged.

He was now free to follow his own course of studies and began to lose his love for company, unless it were with those who were drawn like himself to religion.

This mode has some disadvantages attending it; such sheets are difficult to handle; the crustaceous species are liable to have their surfaces rubbed; the foliaceous species become so compressed as to lose their characteristic appearance; and the spaces between the sheets caused by the thickness of the specimen permit the entrance of dust.

The syn-aldoximes or treatment with acetyl chloride readily lose water and yield nitriles; the anti-aldoximes as a rule are acetylated and do not yield nitriles.

On the other hand, the Russians, once their fatherland was invaded, became dominated by an ever-growing spirit of fanaticism, and they were by nature too obedient to their natural leaders, and too well inured to the hardships of campaigning, to lose their courage in a retreat.