loss vs lost

Definitions

noun

1. gradual decline in amount or activity
2. the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
3. euphemistic expressions for death
4. the act of losing someone or something
5. military personnel lost by death or capture

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Examples

If you wonder about ‘furphy’, as I did, here's a gloss and explanation.

‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.

This was the reality glossed over in television fiction; indignity, suspicion, denial of the decencies.

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Definitions

adjective

1. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
2. incapable of being recovered or regained
3. spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed
4. having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity
5. deeply absorbed in thought

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noun

1. people who are destined to die soon

Examples

I used to think the worst feeling was losing someone you love. But, I was wrong. The worst feeling is the moment you have lost yourself.

I try to teach them a bit of Cockney but it's a lost cause.

Early plans for a bit of work were killed off when he lost his job.

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