Definition of Lose

Verb

• be set at a disadvantage
  "This author really suffers in translation"
  suffer
• 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"
  miss
• retreat
  - fall back - drop off - fall behind recede
• fail to get or obtain
  "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"
  
• 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"
  - turn a loss
• allow to go out of sight
  "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"
  
• miss from one's possessions
  lose sight of
  "I've lost my glasses again!"
  
• place (something) where one cannot find it again
  "I misplaced my eyeglasses"
  misplace mislay
• 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"
  
• fail to win
  "We lost the battle but we won the war"
  
• 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"
  

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