Definitions for Loss

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Loss loss

Spelling: [laws, los]

IPA: /lɔs, lɒs/

Loss 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 17 anagrams from letters in Loss (loss).

Definitions for Loss

noun

1. detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get:
2. something that is lost:
3. an amount or number lost:
4. the state of being deprived of or of being without something that one has had:
5. death, or the fact of being dead:
6. the accidental or inadvertent losing of something dropped, misplaced, stolen, etc.:
7. a losing by defeat; failure to win:
8. failure to make good use of something, as time; waste.
9. failure to preserve or maintain:
10. destruction or ruin:
11. a thing or a number of related things that are lost or destroyed to some extent:
12. Military. the losing of soldiers by death, capture, etc. Often, losses. the number of soldiers so lost.
13. Insurance. occurrence of an event, as death or damage of property, for which the insurer makes indemnity under the terms of a policy.
14. Electricity. a measure of the power lost in a system, as by conversion to heat, expressed as a relation between power input and power output, as the ratio of or difference between the two quantities.

Idioms

1. at a loss, at less than cost; at a financial loss. in a state of bewilderment or uncertainty; puzzled; perplexed:

Origin of Loss

before 900; Middle English; Old English los destruction; cognate with Old Norse los looseness, breaking up. See lose, loose

Examples for Loss

I am glad you mentioned that word, because we should have been at a loss what to have called it.

The saddest part of loss, I think, is that one so soon gets over it.

One specific kind of emergency is at the heart of this, such as when an airplane suffers a loss of stability at night.

Throughout all the stories of loss and pain with the Chief, there was barely a trace of emotion.

She might die, and if he ever returned it would be to realize the loss he had sustained.

Was it not over soon after the loss of the good grandmother?

To look at her in tears was to behold the enormity of her loss.

How do you celebrate when happy occasions are colored by loss and absence?

His loss before the fort was about one hundred and fifty men.

One topic that comes up among the members, she says, is dealing with loss years later.