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loss

noun

1 loss

Something that is lost.

Roget 638: consumption, expenditure, exhaustion; dispersion etc. 73; ebb; leakage etc. (exudation) 295; loss etc. 776; ... show more

Roget 659: deterioration, debasement; wane, ebb; recession etc. 287; retrogradation etc. 283; decrease etc. 36.    ... show more

Roget 619: evil, ill, harm, hurt.   , mischief, nuisance; machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to.    blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, ... show more

Roget 40a: decrement, discount, defect, loss, deduction; afterglow; eduction; waste.   

Polish: strata, uszczerbek, utrata, szkoda

2 loss

Gradual decline in amount or activity.

3 loss

The act of losing someone or something.

Dutch: derving, gemis, verlies

4 loss

The disadvantage that results from losing something:
— His loss of credibility led to his resignation.

synonym: deprivation.

Roget 776: loss; deperdition, perdition; forfeiture, lapse.    privation, bereavement; deprivation etc. (dispossession) 789; riddance; damage, squandering, ... show more

Dutch: ontneming, derving, gemis, ontbering

5 loss

The experience of losing a loved one.

Polish: postradanie, stracenie, utracenie

6 loss

The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue:
— The company operated at a loss last year.

synonyms: red, red ink.

Dutch: verlies, schadepost, verliespost
Polish: strata

7 loss

Military personnel lost by death or capture.

synonym: personnel casualty.

8 loss

Euphemistic expressions for death.

synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, passing, release.

Roget 360: death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: ablation, annihilation, attrition, bankruptcy, bereavement, breakage, breakdown, collapse, confusion, consumption, corrosion, crack-up, crippling, damage, death, decrement, defeat, deliquescence, demise, denial ... show more.

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