loss

Roget category 776

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.9. Possessive relations
›› 5.9.1. Property in general

#776. Loss

noun

loss — deperdition^†, perdition — forfeiture, lapse.
privation, bereavement — deprivation etc. (dispossession) 789 — riddance — damage, squandering, waste.

verb

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.

adjective

losing etc. v. — not having etc. 777.1. shorn of, deprived of — denuded, bereaved, bereft, minus, cut off — dispossessed etc. 789 — rid of, quit of — out of pocket.
lost etc. v. — long lost — irretrievable etc. (hopeless) 859 — off one's hands.

interjection

farewell to!, adieu to.

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