lose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English losen, from Old English losian. The modern pronunciation with /uː/ (instead of the /oʊ~əʊ/ that would be expected from Early Modern /ɔː/) is due to conflation with loose.
Inflected forms:
form: loses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: losing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lost
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lost
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: lose
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: lose
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: lost
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: lose
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: losest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: lost
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: lostest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: loses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: loseth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: lost
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: lose
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: lost
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: lose
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: lost
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: lose
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: losing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lost
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you lose that ten-pound note, you'll be sorry.
He lost his hearing in the explosion.
She lost her position when the company was taken over.
Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
Douglas: I took some of the pension money out of the bank and I lost it on a horse.
Nolan: Gambling with our employees' pensions?
Douglas: Gambling? No. I was riding the horse. It fell out of my pocket.
Forest, who lost striker Kris Boyd to injury seconds before half-time, produced little after the break, with a Tyson sliced shot from 12 yards their only opportunity of note.
gloss: To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Johnny lost a tooth, but kept it for the tooth fairy.
He lost his spleen in a car wreck.
gloss: To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I’ve lost five pounds this week.
gloss: To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She lost all her sons in the war.
I hold it true, whate’er befall;
⁠I feel it, when I sorrow most;
⁠’Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
gloss: To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Frank had lost $500 staying in Vegas.
gloss: To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Users who engage in disruptive behavior may lose their accounts.
gloss: To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I lost my way in the forest.
He hath lost his fellows.
gloss: To become a defeated competitor in (a game, competition, trial, etc).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We lost the football match.
You just lost The Game.
I fought the battle bravely which I lost, / And lost it but to Macedonians.
Well, some news from overseas: according to a new report, Russia is now buying military supplies from North Korea. Yep, Russia's asking North Korea for help. Uh, tell us you're losing the war without telling us you're losing the war.
gloss: To be defeated (in a game, competition, contest, etc.)
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The team scored four goals but still managed to lose.
gloss: To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The policeman lost the robber he was chasing.
Mission control lost the satellite as its signal died down.
gloss: To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: lose the cops
We managed to lose our pursuers in the forest.
gloss: To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I can see Mickie getting hot, I'm about to grab his arm, hold him back, say, Whoa, whoa, Mick, not here, it ain't worth it what happened inside just now. But I don't need to because Mickie loses his anger, starts smiling at ponytail, then melodramatically starts looking around at the men and women on the street going in and out of the courthouse.
Her attitude was so bad my mother wound up telling her, “You know we really don't have to be standing here talking to you, so you can lose the attitude or you can leave.
gloss: To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: When we get into the building, please lose the hat.
You can bet that the next woman who "loses" the top half of her bikini at the beach was born under the sign of Libra.
gloss: Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My watch loses five minutes a week.
It's already 5:30? My watch must have lost a few minutes.
gloss: To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: O false heart! thou hadst almost betrayed me to eternal flames, and lost me this glory.
a. 1699, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, On the Excesses of Grief
How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves with so much passion?
Anyone who knew you were gay, especially if they were straight, had life-and-death power over you. That person could lose you your job, get you evicted, or have you generally hounded out of town.
This lost Catholicism […] any semblance of a claim to special status, and also highlighted the gains which other religious formations had derived from the Revolution.
gloss: To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I lost a part of what he said.
Synonyms: leave behind
mislay
(fail to win: forfeit
(shed: drop, shed
forlese
lose
Antonyms: come across
discover
find
gain
acquire
procure
get
pick up
snag
win
gain, put on
find
pick up
come first
win
gain
possess
receive
Related words: losel
loser
loss
steal
Derived words: and nothing of value was lost
be someone's to lose
for the lose
have nothing to lose
how you get them is how you lose them
lorel
lose an hour of sleep
lose caste
lose control
lose count
lose face
lose ground
lose heart
lose her head
lose his head
lose it
lose-lose
lose no time
lose one's balance
lose one's battle
lose one's bearings
lose one's bottle
lose one's cookies
lose one's cool
lose oneself
lose one's head
lose one's heart
lose one's life
lose one's lunch
lose one's marbles
lose one's mind
lose one's nerve
lose one's patience
lose one's rag
lose one's shirt
lose one's shit
lose one's temper
lose one's tongue
lose one's touch
lose one's virginity
lose one's way
lose one's wits
lose out
lose patience
lose sight of
lose sleep
lose the bell
lose the bubble
lose the dressing room
lose the fang
lose their head
lose the number of one's mess
lose the plot
lose the run of oneself
lose the thread
lose time
lose to plot
lose touch
lose track
lose weight
losingly
move it or lose it
no-lose
no love lost
nonlosing
no time to lose
the wolf may lose his teeth but never his nature
unlose
use it or lose it
what you gain on the swings you lose on the roundabouts
what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
win or lose
would lose one's head if it wasn't attached
would lose one's head if it wasn't bolted on
would lose one's head if it wasn't glued on
would lose one's head if it wasn't screwed on
would lose one's head if it wasn't stuck on
would lose one's head if it wasn't tied on
would lose one's head if it weren't attached
you snooze you lose
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: verloor
lang: Albanian
word: humb
lang: Albanian
word: humbas
lang: Gheg Albanian
word: hup
lang: Southern Altai
word: јоголтор
roman: ǰogoltor
lang: Arabic
word: خَسِرَ
roman: ḵasira
lang: Arabic
word: فَقَدَ
roman: faqada
lang: Arabic
word: ضيع
roman: ḍayyaʕ
lang: Arabic
word: ودّر
roman: waddər
lang: Armenian
word: կորցնել
roman: korcʻnel
lang: Aromanian
word: cherdu
lang: Assamese
word: হেৰোৱা
roman: herüa
lang: Asturian
word: perder
lang: Azerbaijani
word: itirmək
lang: Azerbaijani
word: uduzmaq
lang: Bashkir
word: юғалтыу
roman: yuğaltıw
lang: Basque
word: galdu
lang: Belarusian
word: тра́ціць
roman: trácicʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: стра́ціць
roman: strácicʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: губі́ць
roman: hubícʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: губля́ць
roman: hubljácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: згубі́ць
roman: zhubícʹ
lang: Belizean Creole
word: laas
lang: Bengali
word: হারানো
roman: haranō
lang: Bengali
word: হারিয়ে ফেলা
roman: hariẏe phela
lang: Bhojpuri
word: हेराइल
roman: hērāil
lang: Bulgarian
word: загу́бвам
roman: zagúbvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: гу́бя
roman: gúbja
lang: Bulgarian
word: загу́бя
roman: zagúbja
lang: Burmese
word: ပျောက်
roman: pyauk
lang: Burmese
word: ပျက်
roman: pyak
lang: Burmese
word: ပြုတ်
roman: prut
lang: Catalan
word: perdre
lang: Chechen
word: иеша
roman: iješa
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎤᏲᎱᏎᎭ
roman: uyohuseha
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 冇咗
roman: mou⁵ zo²
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 丟 /丢
roman: diu¹
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 蝕 /蚀)
lang: Chinese
word: дю
roman: di͡u
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 丟 /丢
roman: diū
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 失去
roman: shīqù
lang: Chuukese
word: poutano
lang: Cornish
word: kelli
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: coytmaq
lang: Czech
word: ztrácet
lang: Czech
word: ztratit
lang: Dalmatian
word: piardro
lang: Danish
word: tabe
lang: Danish
word: miste
lang: Dutch
word: verliezen
lang: Esperanto
word: malgajni
lang: Esperanto
word: perdi
lang: Estonian
word: kaotama
lang: Faroese
word: missa
lang: Finnish
word: menettää
lang: French
word: perdre
lang: North Frisian
word: ferlees
lang: North Frisian
word: ferliise
lang: Old Frisian
word: forliasa
lang: West-Frisian
word: ferlieze
lang: Friulian
word: pierdi
lang: Galician
word: perder
lang: Georgian
word: დაკარგვა
roman: daḳargva
lang: German
word: verlieren
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽
roman: fraliusan
lang: Greek
word: χάνω
roman: cháno
lang: Haitian Creole
word: pèdi
lang: Hebrew
word: אִבֵּד
roman: 'ibbed
lang: Hindi
word: खोना
roman: khonā
lang: Hungarian
word: elveszít
lang: Hungarian
word: elhagy
lang: Icelandic
word: týna
lang: Ido
word: perdar
lang: Ilocano
word: wagat
lang: Ilocano
word: iwagat
lang: Indonesian
word: hilang
lang: Irish
word: caill
lang: Isnag
word: waxa
lang: Istro-Romanian
word: pľerde
lang: Italian
word: perdere
lang: Italian
word: smarrire
lang: Japanese
word: なくす
roman: nakusu
lang: Japanese
word: 落とす
roman: otosu
lang: Japanese
word: 失う
roman: ushinau
lang: Kashmiri
word: راوُن
roman: rāvun
lang: Kazakh
word: жоғалту
roman: joğaltu
lang: Khmer
word: បាត់
roman: bat
lang: Korean
word: 잃다
roman: ilta
lang: Central Kurdish
word: بزر کردن
roman: bizr kirdin
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: ji dest dan
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: winda kirin
lang: Kyrgyz
word: жоготуу
roman: jogotuu
lang: Ladin
word: perde
lang: Ladino
word: pedrer
lang: Ladino
word: piedrer
lang: Ladino
word: peryer
lang: Lao
word: ເສຍ
roman: sīa
lang: Latgalian
word: pagaisynuot
lang: Latgalian
word: gaisynuot
lang: Latin
word: āmittō
lang: Latin
word: perdō
lang: Latvian
word: zaudēt
lang: Latvian
word: pazaudēt
lang: Lingala
word: bungisa
lang: Lithuanian
word: netèkti
lang: Lithuanian
word: praràsti
lang: Livonian
word: kōtõ
lang: Lombard
word: perd
lang: Lombard
word: pèrd
lang: Low German
word: verlesen
lang: Luxembourgish
word: verléieren
lang: Macedonian
word: губи
roman: gubi
lang: Macedonian
word: изгуби
roman: izgubi
lang: Malay
word: hilang
lang: Maltese
word: tilef
lang: Mauritian Creole
word: perdi
lang: Mongolian
word: алдах
roman: aldax
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: ūi
lang: Nepali
word: गुमाउनु
roman: gumāunu
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: miste
lang: Occitan
word: pèrder
lang: Occitan
word: pèrdre
lang: Old English
word: forlēosan
lang: Persian
word: گم کردن
roman: gom kardan
lang: Piedmontese
word: perde
lang: Polish
word: gubić
lang: Polish
word: zgubić
lang: Polish
word: tracić
lang: Polish
word: stracić
lang: Portuguese
word: perder
lang: Quechua
word: chinkay
lang: Quechua
word: cinkai
lang: Quechua
word: ograi
lang: Quechua
word: chinkachiy
lang: Romanian
word: pierde
lang: Romansh
word: perder
lang: Romansh
word: piarder
lang: Romansh
word: pearder
lang: Russian
word: теря́ть
roman: terjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: потеря́ть
roman: poterjátʹ
lang: Samoan
word: vāivai
lang: Sardinian
word: peldere
lang: Sardinian
word: peldiri
lang: Sardinian
word: perdere
lang: Sardinian
word: perdiri
lang: Scots
word: tyne
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: caill
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: гу̀бити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: изгу̀бити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: gùbiti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: izgùbiti
lang: Seychellois Creole
word: perdi
lang: Sicilian
word: peddiri
lang: Slovak
word: strácať
lang: Slovak
word: stratiť
lang: Slovene
word: izgubiti
lang: Slovene
word: izgubljati
lang: Somali
word: lumid
lang: Spanish
word: perder
lang: Swedish
word: förlora
lang: Swedish
word: tappa bort
lang: Swedish
word: tappa
lang: Swedish
word: mista
lang: Swedish
word: bliva av med
lang: Swedish
word: varda av med
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠀꠞꠣꠘꠤ
roman: arani
lang: Tajik
word: гум кардан
roman: gum kardan
lang: Tamil
word: தொலை
roman: tolai
lang: Tamil
word: இழ
roman: iḻa
lang: Tatar
word: югалту
roman: yuğaltu
lang: Telugu
word: కోల్పోవు
roman: kōlpōvu
lang: Tetum
word: lakon
lang: Thai
word: เสีย
roman: sǐia
lang: Tibetan
word: བརླགས
roman: brlags
lang: Tok Pisin
word: lusim
lang: Tongan
word: mole
lang: Turkish
word: kaybetmek
lang: Turkish
word: yitirmek
lang: Turkmen
word: ýitirmek
lang: Ukrainian
word: втрача́ти
roman: vtračáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: втра́тити
roman: vtrátyty
lang: Ukrainian
word: губи́ти
roman: hubýty
lang: Ukrainian
word: загуби́ти
roman: zahubýty
lang: Urdu
word: کھونا
roman: khonā
lang: Uyghur
word: يوقالماق
roman: yoqalmaq
lang: Uyghur
word: يوقاتماق
roman: yoqatmaq
lang: Uzbek
word: yoʻqotmoq
lang: Venetan
word: pèrdar
lang: Vietnamese
word: mất
lang: Walloon
word: piede
lang: Welsh
word: colli
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿאַרלירן
roman: farlirn