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, escape memory, fade from memory, die away from the memory; lose, lose sight of.    fail to recall, not be able to recall.    [cause oneself to forget] unlearn; efface etc. 552, discharge from the memory; consign to oblivion, consign to the tomb of the Capulets; think no more of etc. (turn the attention from) 458; cast behind one's back, wean one's thoughts from; let bygones be bygones etc. (forgive) 918.    ... show more

Dutch: afvallen, kwijtraken, verliezen

Fail to win.

Dutch: verliezen

Suffer the loss of a person through death or removal.

Dutch: ontvallen

Miss from one's possessions; lose sight of.

Dutch: kwijtraken, verliezen

Allow to go out of sight or mind.

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

synonym: turn a loss.

Dutch: verliezen

Fail to get or obtain.

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.]; lose one's labor, take nothing by one's motion; bring to naught, make nothing of; wash a blackamoor white etc. (impossible) 471; roll the stones of Sisyphus etc. (useless) 645; do by halves etc. (not complete) 730; lose ground etc. (recede) 282; fall short of etc. 304.    miss, miss one's aim, miss the mark, miss one's footing, miss stays; slip, trip, stumble; make a slip etc. n.. blunder etc. 495, make a mess of, make a botch of; bitch it^†, miscarry, abort, go up like a rocket and come down like the stick, come down in flames, get shot down, reckon without one's host; get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear etc. (blunder), )mismanage) 699.    limp, halt, hobble, titubate^†; fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief etc. (adversity) 735; go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated etc. 731; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb etc. (submit) 725; not have a leg to stand on.    come to nothing, end in smoke; flat out^†; fall to the ground, fall through, fall dead, fall stillborn, fall flat; slip through one's fingers; hang fire, miss fire; flash in the pan, collapse; topple down etc. (descent) 305; go to wrack and ruin etc. (destruction) 162.    go amiss, go wrong, go cross, go hard with, go on a wrong tack; go on ill, come off ill, turn out ill, work ill; take a wrong term, take an ugly term; take an ugly turn, take a turn for the worse.    be all over with, be all up with; explode; dash one's hopes etc. (disappoint) 509; defeat the purpose; sow the wind and reap the whirlwind, jump out of the frying pan into the fire, go from the frying pan into the fire.    ... 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 etc. 782; waste etc. 638.    be lost; lapse.    ... 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; darken etc. 421; confuse etc. (derange) 61; perplex etc. (bewilder) 475.    not understand etc. 518; lose, lose the clue; miss; not know what to make of, be able to make nothing of, give it up; not be able to account for, not be able to make either head or tail of; be at sea etc. (uncertain) 475; wonder etc. 870; see through a glass darkly etc. (ignorance) 491.    not understand one another; play at cross purposes etc. (misinterpret) 523.    ... show more

Dutch: ontgaan, ontglippen, ontsnappen, voorbijgaan

Withdraw, as from reality.

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

synonym: suffer.