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Lose   /luz/   Listen
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.  Antonym: keep.
2.
Fail to win.  Antonym: 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.  Antonym: find.
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"  Antonyms: break even, profit.
8.
Fail to get or obtain.  Antonym: win.
9.
Retreat.  Synonyms: drop off, fall back, fall behind, recede.  Antonym: gain.
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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"Lose" Quotes from Famous Books



... in a way of subjection to authority; and the authority set over you will, in all administrations for your good, be quietly submitted unto by all but such as have a disposition to shake off the yoke and lose their true liberty, by their murmuring at the ...
— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al
... diminished exportation of tea from England to the colonies, there were, in warehouses of the British East India Company, seventeen millions of pounds of tea for which there was no demand. Lord North and his colleagues were not willing to lose the expected revenue, as small as it must be at last from their American Tea Act, and the East India Company were unwilling to lose the profits ...
— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Egerton Ryerson
... starboard hand of the point of rock to windward!" cried the boy; "now you lose it—ah! now the sun falls upon it! 'tis a sail, sir, as sure as canvas can be spread ...
— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper
... the censor in question degraded. The system of the censorate lends itself to espionage and to bribery, and it is said to be more powerful for mischief than for good. With the growth in influence of the native press the institution appears to lose its raison d'etre. ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 - "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" • Various
... refers to the communication which David promulgates in the sequel, and not to other revelations which he had formerly received, appears from its relation to the [Hebrew: naM] in ver. 1. We should lose the new revelation announced in ver. 1, if ver. 2, and, hence, ver. 3 also—for the [Hebrew: amr] there evidently resumes the [Hebrew: dbr]—refer to divine revelations which David, or, as Thenius supposes, even some other person, had formerly received.—[Hebrew: ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1 • Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg


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