Definitions for lost

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lost lost

Spelling: [lawst, lost]

IPA: /lɔst, lɒst/

Lost 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 27 anagrams from letters in lost (lost).

Definitions for lost

Idioms

1. get lost, Slang. to absent oneself: to stop being a nuisance:
2. lost to, no longer belonging to. no longer possible or open to: insensible to:
3. lose face. face (def 51).
4. lose it, Informal. to suddenly lose control of one's emotions:

adjective

1. no longer possessed or retained:
2. no longer to be found:
3. having gone astray or missed the way; bewildered as to place, direction, etc.:
4. not used to good purpose, as opportunities, time, or labor; wasted:
5. being something that someone has failed to win:
6. ending in or attended with defeat:
7. destroyed or ruined:
8. preoccupied; rapt:
9. distracted; distraught; desperate; hopeless:

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.

verb (used with or without object)

1. simple past tense and past participle of lose.

Origin of lost

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 lost

After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.

He lost his bid for a fourth term to George Pataki that year.

He was not originally so uninhibited, however, as can now be seen in his “lost” novel, Skylight.

“The origin of Brokpas is lost in antiquity,” a research article from the University of Delhi notes.

They were fabled as seven sisters, and one lost her place in the sky by marrying a mortal.

"He will look for me, and seem bewildered, as if something were lost," replied Philothea.

I tell you he's alive and well, only he's lost your money and Pish's and mine and his own.

So in that sense we have gotten close to the families that have lost loved ones, be it from one side or the other.

But unless he did something a hundred lives perhaps might be lost.

You don't want to let him be the one to break it because you lost your money, do you?