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adjective
1.
no longer possessed or retained: lost friends.
2.
no longer to be found: lost articles.
3.
having gone astray or missed the way; bewildered as to place, direction, etc.: lost children.
4.
not used to good purpose, as opportunities, time, or labor; wasted: a lost advantage.
5.
EXPANDbeing something that someone has failed to win: a lost prize.
6.
ending in or attended with defeat: a lost battle.
7.
destroyed or ruined: lost ships.
8.
preoccupied; rapt: He seems lost in thought.
9.
COLLAPSEdistracted; distraught; desperate; hopeless: the lost look of a man trapped and afraid.
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
10.
simple past tense and past participle of lose.
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Get lost
is always a great word to know.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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11.
get lost, Slang.
a.
to absent oneself: I think I'll get lost before an argument starts.
b.
to stop being a nuisance: If they call again, tell them to get lost.
12.
lost to,
a.
no longer belonging to.
b.
no longer possible or open to: The opportunity was lost to him.
c.
insensible to: lost to all sense of duty.
Related forms
un·lost, adjective
Synonyms
1. forfeited, gone, missing. 3. confused, perplexed. 4. squandered.
1. forfeited, gone, missing. 3. confused, perplexed. 4. squandered.
Antonyms
1. found.
1. found.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
lost
"defeated" (c.1300), "wasted, spent in vain," c.1500; also "no longer to be found" (1526), from the pp. of lose (q.v.). Lost Cause in ref. to the Southern U.S. bid for independence is from the title of E.A. Pollard's history of the CSA and the rebellion (1866). Lost Generation
EXPANDin ref. to the period 1914-18 first attested 1926 in Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises," where he credits it to Gertrude Stein.
COLLAPSE
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
get lost
Go away, as in Get lost, we don't want you around. This rather rude slangy imperative dates from the 1940s.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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