zə adjective
susceptible to becoming lost.
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| —vb , loses, losing, lost | |
| 1. | to part with or come to be without, as through theft, accident, negligence, etc |
| 2. | to fail to keep or maintain: to lose one's balance |
| 3. | to suffer the loss or deprivation of: to lose a parent |
| 4. | to cease to have or possess |
| 5. | to fail to get or make use of: to lose a chance |
| 6. | (also intr) to fail to gain or win (a contest, game, etc): to lose the match |
| 7. | to fail to see, hear, perceive, or understand: I lost the gist of his speech |
| 8. | to waste: to lose money gambling |
| 9. | to wander from so as to be unable to find: to lose one's way |
| 10. | to cause the loss of: his delay lost him the battle |
| 11. | to allow to go astray or out of sight: we lost him in the crowd |
| 12. | (usually passive) to absorb or engross: he was lost in contemplation |
| 13. | (usually passive) to cause the death or destruction of: two men were lost in the attack |
| 14. | to outdistance or elude: he soon lost his pursuers |
| 15. | (intr) to decrease or depreciate in value or effectiveness: poetry always loses in translation |
| 16. | (also intr) (of a timepiece) to run slow (by a specified amount): the clock loses ten minutes every day |
| 17. | (of a physician) to fail to sustain the life of (a patient) |
| 18. | (of a woman) to fail to give birth to (a viable baby), esp as the result of a miscarriage |
| 19. | slang motor racing to lose control of (the car), as on a bend: he lost it going into Woodcote |
| 20. | slang lose it to lose control of oneself or one's temper |
| [Old English losian to perish; related to Old English -lēosan as in forlēosan to forfeit. Compare | |
| 'losable | |
| —adj | |
| 'losableness | |
| —n | |
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