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Roget category 776

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

#776. Loss

noun

lossdeperdition, perditionforfeiture, lapse.
privation, bereavementdeprivation etc. (dispossession) 789riddancedamage, squandering, waste.

verb

loseincur a loss, experience a loss, meet with a lossmissmislay, let slip, allow to slip through the fingersbe without etc. (exempt) 777.1; forfeit.
get rid of etc. 782waste etc. 638.
be lostlapse.

adjective

losing etc. v. — not having etc. 777.1. shorn of, deprived ofdenuded, bereaved, bereft, minus, cut offdispossessed etc. 789rid of, quit ofout of pocket.
lost etc. v. — long lostirretrievable etc. (hopeless) 859off one's hands.

interjection

farewell to!, adieu to.

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