Definitions for loses

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loses lose

Spelling: [looz]

IPA: /luz/

Loses is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in loses (eloss).

Definitions for loses

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 loses

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 loses

But he loses his backpack in the process and it stays with the cops as he flees down the walkway toward Brooklyn.

Lady eventually does engage in a street fight, and loses, which surprises and horrifies Mariame and the gang.

As a Christian he loses his trade, and he has been trained to no other.

She loses them briefly in a department store, but finds them a few moments later, and the incident is never mentioned again.

It loses the religious sense which more than any other seems to take a man out of himself.

At the last minute, she tries to talk his captors down on the price—and loses her boy instead.

A man may gain foreknowledge by a wife, but he loses free agency.

If Assad falls and a new government is formed by Sunni rebel forces, Iran loses a keystone in its regional power structure.

There is no evidence that it ever loses either its wave-length or energy.

It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.