Definition of lose Lose
/luˈz/ - [luz] - lose
We found 34 definitions of lose from 6 different sources.
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What does lose mean?
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| lose - fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war" | ||
| win be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious; "He won the Gold Medal in skating"; "Our home team won"; "Win the game" | ||
| go down be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too" | ||
| drop give birth; used for animals; "The cow dropped her calf this morning" | ||
| remain down, take the count be counted out; remain down while the referee counts to ten | ||
| drop one's serve lose a game in which one is serving | ||
| lose - 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 | ||
| turn a profit, profit make a profit; gain money or materially; "The company has not profited from the merger" | ||
| break even attain a level at which there is neither gain nor loss, as in business, gambling, or a competitive sport | ||
| lose - miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!" | ||
| regain, find come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining" | ||
| forget, leave be unable to remember; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!" | ||
| 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" | ||
| hold on, keep stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!" | ||
| white-out, whiteout lose daylight visibility in heavy fog, snow, or rain | ||
| sleep off get rid of by sleeping; "sleep off a hangover" | ||
| 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" | ||
| suffer feel pain or be in pain | ||
| lose - fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad" | ||
| win, acquire, gain be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious; "He won the Gold Medal in skating"; "Our home team won"; "Win the game" | ||
| 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 - retreat | ||
| fall back, drop off, fall behind, recede | ||
| gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win, gain, advance be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious; "He won the Gold Medal in skating"; "Our home team won"; "Win the game" | ||
| retrogress, regress, retrograde get worse or fall back to a previous condition | ||
| lose - be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation" | ||
| suffer | ||
| suffer feel pain or be in pain | ||
| worsen, decline grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened" | ||
| 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" | ||
| miss | ||
| overlook watch over; "I am overlooking her work" | ||
| lose - place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses" | ||
| misplace, mislay | ||
| position, lay, pose, put, place, set cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation | ||
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Wiktionary 
- lose (Verb)
To cause something to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons. - lose (Verb)
To have an organ removed from one's body, especially by accident. - lose (Verb)
To fail to win a game, competition, trial, etc. - lose (Verb)
To shed weight; to reduce. - lose (Verb)
To experience the death of someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend. - lose (Verb)
To be unable to follow or trace somebody or something any longer. - lose (Verb)
To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate. - lose (Verb)
Of a clock, to run slower than expected. - lose (Verb)
To cause someone the loss of something; to deprive of.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- lose (v. t.)
To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle. - lose (v. t.)
To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health. - lose (v. t.)
Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction. - lose (v. t.)
To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way. - lose (v. t.)
To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge. - lose (v. t.)
To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd. - lose (v. t.)
To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said. - lose (v. t.)
To cause to part with; to deprive of. - lose (v. t.)
To prevent from gaining or obtaining. - lose (v. i.)
To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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lose
To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons. -
lose
To be beaten or to fail to win in an event.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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lose
lōōz, v.t. to be deprived of: to cease to have: to mislay: to waste, as time: to miss: to bewilder: to cause to perish: to ruin.—v.i. to fail, to be unsuccessful: to suffer waste:—pr.p. los′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. lost.—adj. Los′able.—n. Los′er.—adj. Los′ing, causing loss.—adv. Los′ingly.—n. Loss, the act of losing: injury: destruction: defeat: that which is lost: waste.—adj. Lost, parted with: no longer possessed: missing: thrown away: squandered: ruined.—Lose one's self, to lose one's way, to become bewildered; Lost to, insensible to; Lost tribes, the tribes of Israel which never returned from captivity.—At a loss, in uncertainty. [A.S. losian—leósan; cog. with Ger. ver-lieren, to lose.]
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🔤- lose, verb, present, 1st person singular of lose (infinitive).
- lose, verb (infinitive).
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