Sentence:  A word taken in its dictionary meaning , a photographic image of a recognizable object , the mere picturing of a `` scene '' tends to <WSD>lose</WSD> experiential vividness and to connote such conventional abstractions as to invite neutral reception without the incitement of value feelings . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense