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lose   (TTS Sound)

The verb lose has 11 senses

• lose -- (fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat")


• lose -- (fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war")


• lose -- (suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her")


• misplace, mislay, lose -- (place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses")


• lose -- (miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!")


• lose -- (allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light")


• lose, turn a loss -- (fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year")


• lose -- (fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad")


• fall back, lose, drop off, fall behind, recede -- (retreat)


• miss, lose -- (fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said")


• suffer, lose -- (be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation")