Lost can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
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| lost - no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities" | ||
| lost - spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon" | ||
| lost - not gained or won; "a lost battle"; "a lost prize" | ||
| lost - not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the din" | ||
| lost - incapable of being recovered or regained; "his lost honor" | ||
| lost - unable to function; without help | ||
| lost - having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity; "I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway"; "the anesthetic left her completely disoriented" | ||
| lost - deeply absorbed in thought; "as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown" | ||
| lost - perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school" | ||
Verb |
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| lose - fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war" | ||
| 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" | ||
| lose - miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!" | ||
| 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 - 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" | ||
| lose - fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad" | ||
| 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 | ||
| lose - be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation" | ||
| 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" | ||
| lose - place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses" |
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| 1. | adj. | A lost child. | |
| 2. | adj. | Lost friends. | |
| 3. | adj. | His lost book. | |
| 4. | adj. | Lost opportunities. | |
| 5. | adj. | Lost souls. | |
| 6. | adj. | A lost generation. | |
| 7. | adj. | A lost ship. | |
| 8. | adj. | The lost platoon. | |
| 9. | adj. | A lost battle. | |
| 10. | adj. | A lost prize. | |
| 11. | adj. | Words lost in the din. | |
| 12. | adj. | His lost honor. | |
| 13. | adj. | Lost in thought. | |
| 14. | adj. | She felt lost on the first day of school. | |
| 15. | adj. | Perhaps something got lost in the translation, but the phrase "Chemical Wire Group" has appeared in all the english Pakistan and India papers. | |
| 16. | verb | Apart from the 1,200 Indian lives lost in 1987, the Indian peacekeeping force was immensely unpopular not only in Tamil Nadu and the Jaffna peninsula but also among the Sinhalese majority who considered it a violation of their country's sovereignty. | |
| 17. | verb | Like the tens of billions of dollars that have been "lost" in Iraq, planeloads of arms don't just "vanish"; not when the Pentagon contracts the work to an international criminal of Bout's untouchable stature. | |
| 18. | verb | So we "lost" some weapon? | |
| 19. | verb | Finally, the "Hatfill theory" seems to have been exhausted or at least lost public favor. | |
| 20. | verb | I've simply lost track! | |
| 21. | verb | Gout in the spine, neck, hands and waist will be lost. | |
| 22. | verb | Hopelessness will be lost. | |
| 23. | verb | In the decade of the nineteen-eighties, my father, then vice-president of the United States of America, sought to work with the good offices of the President of the Republic of Iraq to regain lost oil revenue sources in the neighboring Islamic republic of Iran. | |
| 24. | verb | Before the phones went, I was told [my family in Biloxi] had lost their roof, barn, 2 oak trees and many pines and they were letting in water. | |
| 25. | verb | Survivors are being found all the time, including two children who lost their parents. | |
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| 27. | verb | By Graydon Carter (excepted from "What We've Lost", published by Little Brown). | |
| 28. | verb | 3m - Number of Americans who lost their jobs during first three Years of the Bush administration. | |
| 29. | verb | 4m - Number of Americans who lost their health insurance during Bush's first year in office. | |
| 30. | verb | One million people lost their lives in the war. |
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| adj. | |
| A lost child. |
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| Lost friends. |
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| His lost book. |
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| Lost opportunities. |
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| Lost souls. |
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| A lost generation. |
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| A lost ship. |
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| The lost platoon. |
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| A lost battle. |
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| A lost prize. |
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| Words lost in the din. |
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| His lost honor. |
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| Lost in thought. |
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| She felt lost on the first day of school. |
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| Perhaps something got lost in the translation, but the phrase "Chemical Wire Group" has appeared in all the english Pakistan and India papers. |
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| Apart from the 1,200 Indian lives lost in 1987, the Indian peacekeeping force was immensely unpopular not only in Tamil Nadu and the Jaffna peninsula but also among the Sinhalese majority who considered it a violation of their country's sovereignty. |
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| Like the tens of billions of dollars that have been "lost" in Iraq, planeloads of arms don't just "vanish"; not when the Pentagon contracts the work to an international criminal of Bout's untouchable stature. |
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| So we "lost" some weapon? |
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| Finally, the "Hatfill theory" seems to have been exhausted or at least lost public favor. |
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| I've simply lost track! |
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| Gout in the spine, neck, hands and waist will be lost. |
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| Hopelessness will be lost. |
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| In the decade of the nineteen-eighties, my father, then vice-president of the United States of America, sought to work with the good offices of the President of the Republic of Iraq to regain lost oil revenue sources in the neighboring Islamic republic of Iran. |
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| Before the phones went, I was told [my family in Biloxi] had lost their roof, barn, 2 oak trees and many pines and they were letting in water. |
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| Survivors are being found all the time, including two children who lost their parents. |
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| By Graydon Carter (excepted from "What We've Lost", published by Little Brown). |
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| 3m - Number of Americans who lost their jobs during first three Years of the Bush administration. |
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| 4m - Number of Americans who lost their health insurance during Bush's first year in office. |
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| One million people lost their lives in the war. | |