Word Finder - lost

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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.

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Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.

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The children were soon lost in the forest.

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In an unknown location; unable to be found.

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Deep beneath the ocean, the Titanic was lost to the world.

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Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible.

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an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd

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Parted with; no longer held or possessed.

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a lost limb; lost honour

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Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.

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a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit

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Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.

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a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul

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Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.

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lost to shame; lost to all sense of honour

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Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as not to notice external things.

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to be lost in thought

Had he lost his mind?

Mom always said lost time couldn't be replaced.

Russie is a lost cause.

The gaze lost its humor and he grimaced.

The boys lost no time in trying it.

The ship sailed away and was soon lost to sight.

I am lost! she said to herself.

We seem to have lost our stomach for these kinds of losses.

You've lost almost all of your self-esteem.

Have you lost anyone, my dear fellow?

He had lost more than he could pay.

It's well that the charitable Prussian ladies send us two pounds of coffee and some lint each month or we should be lost! he laughed.

Without you, or when something comes between us like this, I seem lost and can't do anything.

He picked at a thread on the couch, his mind obviously lost in deep thought.

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

Now he's at least functional but the sad part is he lost nearly all of his memory.

No wonder man has lost his elasticity.

If I endeavored to overtake him in a boat, in order to see how he would manoeuvre, he would dive and be completely lost, so that I did not discover him again, sometimes, till the latter part of the day.

In their service he risked his skin and his life twenty times a year, and in their service had lost more horses than the money he had from them would buy.

I lost the baby.

Is Franklin the only man who is lost, that his wife should be so earnest to find him?

The four men followed them for some distance, and then lost them on the hillside.

At that moment his home life, jokes with Petya, talks with Sonya, duets with Natasha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed in the house on the Povarskaya rose before him with such vividness, clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and unappreciated bliss, long past.

Prince Andrew was as glad to find the boy like that, as if he had already lost him.

The Pavlograd regiment had had only two men wounded in action, but had lost nearly half its men from hunger and sickness.

Anatole moved a chair for Natasha and was about to sit down beside her, but the count, who never lost sight of her, took the seat himself.

At the review next day the Emperor asked Prince Andrew where he would like to serve, and Prince Andrew lost his standing in court circles forever by not asking to remain attached to the sovereign's person, but for permission to serve in the army.

From habit she scrutinized the ladies' dresses, condemned the bearing of a lady standing close by who was not crossing herself properly but in a cramped manner, and again she thought with vexation that she was herself being judged and was judging others, and suddenly, at the sound of the service, she felt horrified at her own vileness, horrified that the former purity of her soul was again lost to her.

The flames now died down and were lost in the black smoke, now suddenly flared up again brightly, lighting up with strange distinctness the faces of the people crowding at the crossroads.

I swear to you on my honor that Napoleon was in such a fix as never before and might have lost half his army but could not have taken Smolensk.

Toward two o'clock the regiment, having already lost more than two hundred men, was moved forward into a trampled oatfield in the gap between Semenovsk and the Knoll Battery, where thousands of men perished that day and on which an intense, concentrated fire from several hundred enemy guns was directed between one and two o'clock.

Without moving from that spot or firing a single shot the regiment here lost another third of its men.

As soon as the men of the various regiments began to disperse among the wealthy and deserted houses, the army was lost forever and there came into being something nondescript, neither citizens nor soldiers but what are known as marauders.

Prince Andrew collected all his strength in an effort to recover his senses, he moved a little, and suddenly there was a ringing in his ears, a dimness in his eyes, and like a man plunged into water he lost consciousness.

He lost the power of thinking or understanding.

The French generals lost touch with the Russian army of sixty thousand men, and according to Thiers it was only eventually found, like a lost pin, by the skill--and apparently the genius--of Murat.

Infantry regiments, we are told, advanced to the attack with music and with drums beating, and killed and lost thousands of men.

Tikhon scratched his back with one hand and his head with the other, then suddenly his whole face expanded into a beaming, foolish grin, disclosing a gap where he had lost a tooth (that was why he was called Shcherbaty--the gap-toothed).

Are you lost or have the wolves eaten you?

Señor Medena leaned back in his chair, his attention lost in thought.

A body could get lost out here and never be found.

They exchanged knowing glances, and treated her like a lost dog.

In answer to her response, his kiss lost its hesitancy and became ardent.

By the time we were finished it was dark and the sand was blowing so bad we might have got lost, so we stayed in the cave until it let up.

I'm so sorry, but with my gift, I felt you had some sort of pain, maybe you lost someone once, long ago?

When he returned the Princess looked down the narrow neck of the big ornament and discovered her lost piglet, just as Eureka had said she would.

At intervals the trees lost their icy covering, and the bulrushes and underbrush were bare; but the lake lay frozen and hard beneath the sun.

I never lost a jot of my delight in this great park.

While my days at Radcliffe were still in the future, they were encircled with a halo of romance, which they have lost; but in the transition from romantic to actual I have learned many things I should never have known had I not tried the experiment.

I have lately read "Wilhelm Tell" by Schiller, and "The Lost Vestal."...