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US
/ˈɫuz/
]
[ UK /lˈuːz/ ]
[ UK /lˈuːz/ ]
VERB
-
withdraw, as from reality
he lost himslef in his music -
miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
I've lost my glasses again! -
allow to go out of sight or mind
the lost tribe
The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light
lose the crowds by climbing a mountain -
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
She lost her husband in the war -
fail to get or obtain
I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad -
be set at a disadvantage
This author really suffers in translation
The painting loses something in this light -
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 -
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 -
fail to win
We lost the battle but we won the war -
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
I missed that remark
We lost part of what he said
She missed his point
How To Use lose In A Sentence
- When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu. NYT > Home Page
- She tore her eyes from them for a moment to spy the bodhrán player in the tree, tapping out her rhythm with her eyes closed, not noticing the spy amongst them.
- It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own. Mark Lachs, M.D.: Care Transitions: The Hazards of Going In and Coming Out of the Hospital
- If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
- The baby grows fine hair, fingernails and teeth, and the eyes open and close.
- Only a few people close to me have had anything happen. Everyday Violence
- You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi
- Close beside me stood my excellent friend Griffiths, the jolly hosteler, of whom I take the present opportunity of saying a few words, though I dare say he has been frequently described before, and by far better pens. The Bible in Spain
- Well, my boy Joey is eight years old, and he's a foul-mouthed dumb-ass little loser just like his father.
- The authors of the second paper admit that “other variables … influence the binding avidity (preference), such as type of SA (sialic acid of the receptor site) and glycosylation and sialylation of the hemagglutinin close to the receptor binding site. †These factors all vary obviously and there are other variables in the equation as well including the status of specific areas of the immune system. Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer
