Definitions for Lose

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Lose lose

Spelling: [looz]

IPA: /luz/

Lose is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in Lose (elos).

Definitions for Lose

Idioms

1. lose face. face (def 51).
2. lose it, Informal. to suddenly lose control of one's emotions:

Verb phrases

1. lose out, to suffer defeat or loss; fail to obtain something desired:

verb (used with object)

1. 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:
2. to fail inadvertently to retain (something) in such a way that it cannot be immediately recovered:
3. to suffer the deprivation of:
4. to be bereaved of by death:
5. to fail to keep, preserve, or maintain:
6. (of a clock or watch) to run slower by:
7. to give up; forfeit the possession of:
8. to get rid of:
9. to bring to destruction or ruin (usually used passively):
10. to condemn to hell; damn.
11. to have slip from sight, hearing, attention, etc.:
12. to stray from or become ignorant of (one's way, directions, etc.):
13. to leave far behind in a pursuit, race, etc.; outstrip:
14. to use to no purpose; waste:
15. to fail to have, get, catch, etc.; miss:
16. to fail to win (a prize, stake, etc.):
17. to be defeated in (a game, lawsuit, battle, etc.):
18. to cause the loss of:
19. to let (oneself) go astray, miss the way, etc.:
20. to allow (oneself) to become absorbed or engrossed in something and oblivious to all else:
21. (of a physician or other medical personnel) 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.

verb (used without object)

1. to suffer loss:
2. to suffer defeat or fail to win, as in a contest, race, or game:
3. to depreciate in effectiveness or in some other essential quality:
4. (of a clock, watch, etc.) to run slow.

Origin of Lose

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

Examples for Lose

He had become so wedded to his gold that to lose it was like losing his heart's blood.

You lose connectivity between portions of your brain, and some regions even experience shrinkage, according to Williams.

Instead, Washington, who famously proclaimed “What brave men I must this day lose!”

The problem, says UC Davis physiologist and nutritionist Linda Bacon, is that very few people can lose weight and keep it off.

A lot of people ring in the New Year with vows to lose weight and exercise.

“I guess it was their first incident where they lose a plane,” said Dobersberger, the travel agent.

Then all I can say is, that when you lose it you'll be in a bad pickle.

Do this up to the limit of your capital and I will make good anything you lose.

After all, what vast privileges do you lose with your citizenship.

He feared now she meant to lose it irrevocably through remarriage.