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lose

verb

1 lose

Fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense.

Roget 506: forget; be forgetful etc. adj.; fall into oblivion, sink into oblivion; have a short memory etc. n., have no head.    forget one's own name, have on the tip of one's tongue, come in one ear and go out the other.    slip memory, ... show more

Dutch: afvallen, kwijtraken, verliezen

2 lose

Fail to win.

Dutch: verliezen

3 lose

Suffer the loss of a person through death or removal.

Dutch: ontvallen

4 lose

Miss from one's possessions; lose sight of.

Dutch: kwijtraken, verliezen

5 lose

Allow to go out of sight or mind.

6 lose

Fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit.

synonym: turn a loss.

Dutch: verliezen

7 lose

Fail to get or obtain.

8 lose

Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind.

synonym: miss.

Roget 732: fail; be unsuccessful etc. adj.; not succeed etc. 731; make vain efforts etc. n.; do in vain, labor in vain, toil in vain; flunk [U.S.]; ... show more

Roget 776: lose; incur a loss, experience a loss, meet with a loss; miss; mislay, let slip, allow to slip through the fingers; be without etc. (exempt) 777.1; forfeit.    get rid of ... show more

Roget 519: be unintelligible etc. adj.; require explanation etc. 522; have a doubtful meaning, pass comprehension.    render unintelligible etc. adj.; conceal etc. 528; ... show more

Dutch: ontgaan, ontglippen, ontsnappen, voorbijgaan

9 lose

Withdraw, as from reality.

10 lose

Be set at a disadvantage:
— The painting loses something in this light.

synonym: suffer.


Moby thesaurus: be bereaved of, be found wanting, be unsuccessful, bereave, bite the dust, bow, bow to, capitulate, clear, come to grief, consume, decline, default, disinherit, displace, dispossess, dissipate, divest, draw a blank, drop ... show more.

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