单词 | lose |
释义 | Word Frequency lose(luːz) verbWord forms: loses, losing or lost (mainly tr) 1. to part with or come to be without, as through theft, accident, negligence, etc 2. to fail to keep or maintain to lose one's balance 3. to suffer the loss or deprivation of to lose a parent 4. to cease to have or possess 5. to fail to get or make use of to lose a chance 6. (also intr) to fail to gain or win (a contest, game, etc) to lose the match 7. to fail to see, hear, perceive, or understand I lost the gist of his speech 8. to waste to lose money gambling 9. to wander from so as to be unable to find to lose one's way 10. to cause the loss of their delay lost them the battle 11. to allow to go astray or out of sight we lost him in the crowd 12. (usually passive) to absorb or engross she was lost in contemplation 13. (usually passive) to cause the death or destruction of two civilians were lost in the attack 14. to outdistance or elude he soon lost his pursuers 15. (intransitive) to decrease or depreciate in value or effectiveness poetry always loses in translation 16. (also intr) (of a timepiece) to run slow (by a specified amount) the clock loses ten minutes every day 17. (of a physician) to fail to sustain the life of (a patient) 18. (of a woman) to fail to give birth to (a viable baby), esp as the result of a miscarriage 19. motor racing slang to lose control of (the car), as on a bend he lost it going into Woodcote 20. lose it Derived forms losable (ˈlosable) adjective losableness (ˈlosableness) noun Word origin Old English losian to perish; related to Old English -lēosan as in forlēosan to forfeit. Compare loose |
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