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Lost

adjective

1.

No longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered. "Lost friends" , "His lost book" , "Lost opportunities"

2.

Having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity. Synonyms: confused, disoriented. "The anesthetic left her completely disoriented"

3.

Spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed. "A lost generation" , "A lost ship" , "The lost platoon"

4.

Not gained or won. "A lost prize"

5.

Incapable of being recovered or regained.

6.

Not caught with the senses or the mind. Synonym: missed.

7.

Deeply absorbed in thought. Synonyms: bemused, deep in thought, preoccupied. "Lost in thought" , "A preoccupied frown"

8.

Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment. Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, mazed, mixed-up. "Bewildered and confused" , "A cloudy and confounded philosopher" , "Just a mixed-up kid" , "She felt lost on the first day of school"

9.

Unable to function; without help. Synonym: helpless.

noun

1.

People who are destined to die soon. Synonym: doomed.

Lose

verb

(past & past part. lost; pres. part. losing)

1.

Fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense.

2.

Fail to win.

3.

Suffer the loss of a person through death or removal. "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"

4.

Place (something) where one cannot find it again. Synonyms: mislay, misplace.

5.

Miss from one's possessions; lose sight of.

6.

Allow to go out of sight.

7.

Fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit. Synonym: turn a loss. "The company turned a loss after the first year"

8.

Fail to get or obtain.

9.

Retreat. Synonyms: drop off, fall back, fall behind, recede.

10.

Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind. Synonym: miss. "She missed his point" , "We lost part of what he said"

11.

Be set at a disadvantage. Synonym: suffer.

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"Lost" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and science betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues; and the perpetual strain of panegyric and apology awakens our jealousy, to question the veracity of the historian, and the merit of her hero. We cannot, however, refuse her judicious and important remark, that the disorders of the times were the ...

— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott

... or to preside over the Mercantile Library Association." "He was never," said Mr. Tuckerman, "voluntarily absent from a meeting where the interest of others demanded his presence, and many were the good dinners he lost in consequence." Again: "He had personal gifts which extended the influence due to his character. Tall and spare, his bearing was distinguished, his face handsome and refined; his manners were courtly, of what is known as the 'old school'; his tact was great—he had a faculty for saying ...

— Fifth Avenue • Arthur Bartlett Maurice

... of these follies, however, in the other kind—the kind which he had begun to satirise smartly in Crotchet Castle—and he showed pretty decisively that his hand had not lost its cunning, nor his sword its sharpness. The satire, though partly, is not mainly political; and it is an interesting detail (though it only refreshes the memory of those who knew the facts then or have studied them since) that barely she years before a ...

— Gryll Grange • Thomas Love Peacock

... and that if he hoped to accomplish anything and retain the confidence of the committee, he must make a decided change in his tactics. He must work in secret and under cover of the darkness, and now when it was too late, he wished he had adopted that method at the outset. If he had he wouldn't have lost his reputation. There were two men in the neighborhood he was quite sure he would not trouble again unless he had a strong force at his back, for they had threatened to shoot, and Bud believed they were just reckless enough to do it. When he reached this point in his meditations he chanced to look ...

— True To His Colors • Harry Castlemon

... while he knew his re-election to the White House was in no sense doubtful, knew that if he lost New York and with it Pennsylvania on the home vote, the moral effect of his triumph would be broken and his power to prosecute the war and make peace would be greatly impaired. Colonel A. K. McClure was with Lincoln a good deal of the time previous to the November ...

— Lincoln's Yarns and Stories • Alexander K. McClure

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