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lost

[lawst, lost]

Example Sentences Origin

adjective

no longer possessed or retained: lost friends.

no longer to be found: lost articles.

having gone astray or missed the way; bewildered as to place, direction, etc.: lost children.

not used to good purpose, as opportunities, time, or labor; wasted: a lost advantage.

being something that someone has failed to win: a lost prize.

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ending in or attended with defeat: a lost battle.

destroyed or ruined: lost ships.

preoccupied; rapt: He seems lost in thought.

distracted; distraught; desperate; hopeless: the lost look of a man trapped and afraid.

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verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

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simple past tense and past participle of lose.

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Lost is always a great word to know.

So is grok. Does it mean:

a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty

to understand thoroughly and intuitively

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Idioms

11.

get lost, Slang.

to absent oneself: I think I'll get lost before an argument starts.

to stop being a nuisance: If they call again, tell them to get lost.

12.

lost to,

no longer belonging to.

no longer possible or open to: The opportunity was lost to him.

insensible to: lost to all sense of duty.

Related forms

un·lost, adjective

Synonyms
1. forfeited, gone, missing. 3. confused, perplexed. 4. squandered.

Antonyms
1. found.

Example Sentences

Universities have replaced the lost income with the fees paid by large numbers of international students.

Whether the ancestors to modern snakes lost their limbs at sea or on land has been the subject of debate for over a century.

Instead of gaining genes, they have lost many of them over time.

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Universities have replaced the lost income with the fees paid by large numbers of international students.

Whether the ancestors to modern snakes lost their limbs at sea or on land has been the subject of debate for over a century.

Instead of gaining genes, they have lost many of them over time.

The city was burned, the inhabitants killed or exiled, and much of the heritage of the past thousand years was lost.

I'd lost my tri-tip grilling savvy, especially over charcoal.

If you've ever lost your camera somewhere, you can probably appreciate the sentiments expressed on this poster.

As for a lawsuit, consider not only the issues of lost time and a further bruised ego, but also money.

Subjects on the other diets had lost between three and six pounds.

Also steer clear of lightweight or shriveled bulbs, since these may have lost too much moisture to recover well.

If you follow science news, you've heard a lot about something called dark energy, and you're probably feeling lost and confused.

At some point, it seemed, these older neurons lost their intrinsic ability to grow axons at all.

From every corner of the city, its rose tower guides you when you've lost your way.

The next time a soldier gets lost during military ops, he may be able shine a light on his jacket for directions.

Liquid water had to have energy put into it to become steam, and that energy is not lost.

The first issue could be that the fun of the kitchen has somehow been lost.

Apple has lost not one, but three prototype iPhones in the past year.

Although average amounts of weight lost over two years is not much, some individuals do much better than average.

And once a trunk starts to rot, you've probably lost the plant.

We have now lost too many acres not to recognize an exponential explosion of plants.

Fauna, we're sorry to say, seems to have lost her queen.

Many baseball fans can tell aching tales about valuable baseball cards they have owned and lost.

So my five year old apparently lost her tooth today, and as she said, she lost it and she lost it.

We asked him about what is lost when a language dies.

Explore unforgettable photos of lost cities and learn more about these ancient civilizations.

They symbolize much that has been lost to progress wide-open spaces, self.

Look at it on a map and you get lost in a tangle of islands and inlets, each worthy of weeks' exploration.

What gets lost in all of that anxiety is the joy and value of learning for the sake of learning.

Even more impressive is the idea of restoring sight to people who have lost their eyes.

Fossil fuels exact the biggest toll in terms of lives lost.

For more than four centuries it was lost to history.

Academic labor has lost a lot of ground, and fast, in the last few decades.

Milan was lost to a candidate sponsored by the radical left.

So-called mirror neurons in the brain mimic other people's movements and help stroke victims regain lost abilities.

Those bath toys and sneakers have come from container ships that lost their cargo.

Many of us have relatives or friends who have lost work.

In two weeks, if its thrusters aren't restarted, the spacecraft will be lost completely.

He is one of a few academics in the country who have been detained and have lost contact with their families.

As a budget deadline looms, researchers fear setbacks and lost opportunities.

Both areas have lost species because of the depletion of the water supply and agricultural expansion.

But he worries that momentum in enacting new policies could be lost as state governments adapt to newly elected lawmakers.

One, all the detailed information about that object is lost.

Chocolate's charms were not lost on the conquistadors.

If the culture wars look quiet today, one reason is that the media gatekeepers have lost interest in them.

Researchers found that if dieters got a full night's rest, they more than doubled the amount of weight lost from fat reserves.

But their design allows a significant amount of unburned fuel to be lost with exhaust gas.

After a half-decade of soaring returns, it was the first time endowment investments lost money.

Each time a cell replicates, part of the cap is lost and so eventually the cell can no longer divide.

The oral histories of people who were there or who had lost someone in the attacks.

Although human mothers tend to complain of lost mental sharpness, recent animal studies suggest that.

Rather, the president's critics have simply lost their majority hold on the nine-member board.

Fighters who had lost consciousness fared especially.

Rachel told her that she had lost a tooth and, following the usual.

The handful of jobs lost from coal and natural gas reduction can be replaced double or triple by burning garbage.

Browning's own bacterial community had lost that ability, probably for good.

Lost golf balls are conspicuous evidence of the sport's negative ecological impact.

If you have ever lost weight on a diet only to gain it all back, you were probably as perplexed as you were disappointed.

Singapore may have lost three-quarters of its species to development, a study reveals.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.

to fail inadvertently to retain (something) in such a way that it cannot be immediately recovered: I just lost a dime under this sofa.

to suffer the deprivation of: to lose one's job; to lose one's life.

to be bereaved of by death: to lose a sister.

to fail to keep, preserve, or maintain: to lose one's balance; to lose one's figure.

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(of a clock or watch) to run slower by: The watch loses three minutes a day.

to give up; forfeit the possession of: to lose a fortune at the gaming table.

to get rid of: to lose one's fear of the dark; to lose weight.

to bring to destruction or ruin (usually used passively): Ship and crew were lost.

10.

to condemn to hell; damn.

11.

to have slip from sight, hearing, attention, etc.: to lose him in the crowd.

12.

to stray from or become ignorant of (one's way, directions, etc.): to lose one's bearings.

13.

to leave far behind in a pursuit, race, etc.; outstrip: She managed to lose the other runners on the final lap of the race.

14.

to use to no purpose; waste: to lose time in waiting.

15.

to fail to have, get, catch, etc.; miss: to lose a bargain.

16.

to fail to win (a prize, stake, etc.): to lose a bet.

17.

to be defeated in (a game, lawsuit, battle, etc.): He has lost very few cases in his career as a lawyer.

18.

to cause the loss of: The delay lost the battle for them.

19.

to let (oneself) go astray, miss the way, etc.: We lost ourselves in the woods.

20.

to allow (oneself) to become absorbed or engrossed in something and oblivious to all else: I had lost myself in thought.

21.

(of a physician) to fail to preserve the life of (a patient).

22.

(of a woman) to fail to be delivered of (a live baby) because of miscarriage, complications in childbirth, etc.

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verb (used without object)

23.

to suffer loss: to lose on a contract.

24.

to suffer defeat or fail to win, as in a contest, race, or game: We played well, but we lost.

25.

to depreciate in effectiveness or in some other essential quality: a classic that loses in translation.

26.

(of a clock, watch, etc.) to run slow.

Verb phrase

27.

lose out, to suffer defeat or loss; fail to obtain something desired: He got through the preliminaries, but lost out in the finals.

Idiom

28.

lose face. face (def. 48).

Origin:
before 900; Middle English losen, Old English -lēosan; replacing Middle English lesen, itself also reflecting Old English -lēosan; cognate with German verlieren, Gothic fraliusan to lose. See loss

Related forms

re·lose, verb (used with object), -lost, -los·ing.

Can be confused: loose, loosen, lose, loss.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

lost (lɒst)

—*adj*
1.	unable to be found or recovered
2.	unable to find one's way or ascertain one's whereabouts
3.	confused, bewildered, or helpless: he is lost in discussions of theory
4.	(sometimes foll by on) not utilized, noticed, or taken advantage of (by): rational arguments are lost on her
5.	no longer possessed or existing because of defeat, misfortune, or the passage of time: a lost art
6.	destroyed physically: the lost platoon
7.	(foll by to) no longer available or open (to)
8.	(foll by to) insensible or impervious (to a sense of shame, justice, etc)
9.	(foll by in) engrossed (in): he was lost in his book
10.	morally fallen: a lost woman
11.	damned: a lost soul
12.	informal (usually imperative) get lost go away and stay away

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Word Origin & History

lose

O.E. losian "be lost, perish," from los "destruction, loss," from P.Gmc. *lausa (cf. O.N. los "the breaking up of an army"), from PIE base *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart, untie, separate" (cf. Skt. lunati "cuts, cuts off," lavitram "sickle;" Gk. lyein "to loosen, untie, slacken," lysus "a loosening;"

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L. luere "to loose, release, atone for"). Replaced related leosan (a class II strong verb whose pp. loren survives in forlorn and love-lorn), from P.Gmc. *leusanan (cf. O.H.G. virliosan, Ger. verlieren, O.Fris. urliasa, Goth. fraliusan "to lose"). Transitive sense of "to part with accidentally" is from c.1200. Meaning "to be defeated" (in a game, etc.) is from 1530s. To lose (one's) mind "become insane" is attested from c.1500. To lose out "fail" is 1858, Amer.Eng.

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

in ref. to the period 1914-18 first attested 1926 in Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises," where he credits it to Gertrude Stein.

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

lost

In addition to the idioms beginning with lost, also see get lost; he who hesitates is lost; make up for lost time; no love lost; you've lost me. Also see lose.