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lose in WordNet English dictionary
verb- retreat
fall back lose drop off fall behind recede
- be set at a disadvantage
"This author really suffers in translation"
suffer lose
- fail to win
"We lost the battle but we won the war"
lose
- place (something) where one cannot find it again
"I misplaced my eyeglasses"
misplace mislay lose
- suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
"She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"
lose
- allow to go out of sight
"The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"
lose
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
"I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"
miss lose
- fail to get or obtain
"I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"
lose
- miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
"I've lost my glasses again!"
lose
- fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
"She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"
lose
- fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
"I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year"
lose turn a loss
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University