Word Finder - loss

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The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.

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In other areas, glacier loss creates serious risk of a dry period across the Third Pole, Wang said.

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The destruction or ruin of an object.

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Something that has been destroyed or ruined.

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It was a terrible crash; both cars were total losses.

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Defeat; an instance of being defeated.

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The match ended in their first loss of the season.

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The death of a person or animal.

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The battle was won, but losses were great.

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The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.

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Her daughter's sense of loss eventually led to depression.

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(financial) The sum an entity loses on balance.

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The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss, when this difference is positive.

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Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.

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The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss before the subsequent losses during transport over the grid.

The sense of loss returned.

He already felt the loss of her calm energy, but he had no idea what to do about it.

A loss too great for me to bear.

On the other hand, if he lost them, she would be sharing the loss of lifestyle.

The blood loss and lack of food made her dizzy.

I was at a loss what to do.

I was at a loss how to explain the unexplainable.

She seemed to be at loss for words.

She withdrew, and he felt the loss of her presence like the sun going behind a cloud.

It is a labor to task the faculties of a man--such problems of profit and loss, of interest, of tare and tret, and gauging of all kinds in it, as demand a universal knowledge.

I was tongue tied, at a loss how to respond.

The car was a loss anyway, but her purse and clothes would be ruined.

He felt the loss already, a pain similar to the loss of his sister so many years ago.

The excitement at the coop had cost Alex his chance to watch a birth, but he accepted the loss in good humor.

Bordeaux seemed to be at a loss for words.

The sense of loss from her dream returned, and she was embarrassed to feel her throat tightening.

Then you ditched your new honey and she's stupid enough to think that's a big loss and goes and hangs herself.

Furious at the loss, the fox made a snarling lunge at Carmen.

If my work slowed down, that was a loss of dollars for him.

That he was an unlucky jerk and his loss of memory was probably a good thing in the long pull?

I thought I might be able to fix the time setting by trial and error but I was at a loss establishing a location.

I'm sorry for your loss, Jule, but my father, he's all I have.

Then he fell back into his monotone and said Alex had been in shock from blood loss when they got him to the hospital.

But above all harvest as early as possible, if you would escape frosts and have a fair and salable crop; you may save much loss by this means.

So why did he feel a twinge of loss at the order to send it up in flames?

She mourned the loss of all she'd ever learned or known.

She clung to the wall, at a loss as to what to do.

Lana watched him, at a loss at what to think of his reaction.

The ache of loss had faded a little over the past two weeks, but she still cried herself to sleep at night.

It is safe to say that the man with seventeen puppies is creating more happiness by giving one each to sixteen friends than he is forgoing by his loss of puppies.

But what a loss Kutaysov is!

But he had hardly entered the room before he felt her presence with his whole being by the loss of his sense of freedom.

At a loss as to what to do next, he was about to summon Darkyn when the room shook.

She'd felt the same loss of control and fear when first diagnosed as terminal.

The sight of Toby.s blood made her feel sick, and her own blood loss made her dizzy.

She stood out of his way, barely able to care for a child and at a loss as to what to do with a boy on the verge of becoming a teenager.

He.d find a way to deal with the loss that ate a hole through his body.

My loss is your gain, Josh.

The loss of him and all the other lives made her feel like the worst person on the planet.

Maybe that was his way of coping with the loss of his wife.

The rate of loss of charge is thus largely dependent on the extent to which ions are present in the surrounding air.

The English, under Sir Thomas Graham, afterwards Lord Lynedoch, in March 1814 made an attempt to take it by a coup de main, but were driven back with great loss by the French, who surrendered the place, however, by the treaty of peace in the following May.

The loss of the belief casts a dark shadow over the present life.

His kind, honest eyes, with the tears rising in them when she herself had begun to cry as she spoke of her loss, did not leave her memory.

The dreadful news of the battle of Borodino, of our losses in killed and wounded, and the still more terrible news of the loss of Moscow reached Voronezh in the middle of September.

Remember that you have still to answer to our offended country for the loss of Moscow.

He alone said that the loss of Moscow is not the loss of Russia.

On the one hand there is fear and regret for the loss of the whole edifice constructed through the ages, on the other is the passion for destruction.

Would she ever be able to watch a normal family scene without feeling the agony of her loss?

Nobody wanted this to happen, but don't let his death be a complete loss.