lost1 lost2 adjective
lostlost1 /lɒst $ lɒːst/ 
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Front forces, in particular, lost a very high percentage of their best men in 1968.
- He had lost blood profusely and had collapsed.
- I lost my faith when my parents died.
- Phil Gramm of Texas, who lost a presidential primary bid against Dole.
- Read in studio A man severely brain damaged in an operation more than twenty-five years ago, has lost his fight for compensation.
- Thus the would-be entrepreneur can keep drawing benefits, and, if the business fails, they haven't lost out.
Longman Language Activatorto be lost
to not know where you are, or not know the way to the place that you want to go to: · Excuse me, I'm lost. Could you tell me where the station is, please?· Eventually the three children realized they were lost.
if you do not know where you are , you do not recognize the place that you are in: · I really don't know where we are - can I take a look at the map.· By this time she no longer knew where she was, and was beginning to panic.
to become lost · I'll give you a map so that you don't get lost.· Sorry we're so late. We got lost.
if you lose your way , you go in the wrong direction or take the wrong road when you are trying to go somewhere: · The climbers had lost their way in the dark.· If you lose your way, just stop and ask someone.
to become confused about which direction you should be going in, in a place that you do not know well: · She soon lost her bearings in the dense forest.· I was trying to get to the A22 and lost my bearings a bit in all the country lanes.
a place where it is easy to get lost a place where it is very easy to become lost, because it has a large number of paths, passages, or narrow streets that cross each other: maze/labyrinth of: · The old town is a labyrinth of narrow streets, with shops selling everything you could imagine.· The complex is a maze of car-ramps and driveways with signs pointing in all directions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
He has lost his composure under the pressure of the situation. The Democrats lost control of Congress in the last election. Davidson lost control of himself and started yelling. When she lost her looks (=became less attractive) she found it difficult to get work. It cost the country $4 million in lost productivity. Strikes have cost £20 million in lost revenues. Life seemed to have lost its savour for him. His mind wandered, and he lost the thread of what she was saying (=was no longer able to understand it). I lost touch with (=stopped writing or talking to) Julie after we moved. King obviously hasn’t lost his touch (=lost his ability) – his latest book sold in the millions. I just lost all track of time.
· His favourite shirt had lost a button.
He has lost his composure under the pressure of the situation. The Democrats lost control of Congress in the last election. Davidson lost control of himself and started yelling. When she lost her looks (=became less attractive) she found it difficult to get work. (=one you do not use)· Many people see the failed talks as a missed opportunity for peace.
· I'm afraid the cheque must have got lost in the post.
It cost the country $4 million in lost productivity. Strikes have cost £20 million in lost revenues. Life seemed to have lost its savour for him. formal (=be drowned in the sea)· His father had been lost at sea three months before.
His mind wandered, and he lost the thread of what she was saying (=was no longer able to understand it). I lost touch with (=stopped writing or talking to) Julie after we moved. King obviously hasn’t lost his touch (=lost his ability) – his latest book sold in the millions. I just lost all track of time. (=the time long ago when you were young)· He wept for his lost youth.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the lost-and-found
the past tense and past participle of lose- After much searching, the village people gave Kay up for dead.
- Gray had been missing for over a year, and his wife was ready to give him up for dead.
- It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh.
- On the thirteenth day, Kasturbai knelt before a sacred plant and prayed; she had given him up for lost.
- There's no love lost between Bart and Stephen.
- He's girl crazy! He went to a boys' school and now he's making up for lost time.
- The bus driver was speeding to make up for lost time.
- After a century or so of political apathy, Hong Kong's young people were making up for lost time.
- He was eager to make up for lost time and published prolifically.
- Meanwhile Keith and Mae are settling down to married life, making up for lost time.
- None the less, we immediately started our other meetings to make up for lost time.
- Once I settled into my new life, I did everything I could to make up for lost time.
- Time to make up for lost time.
- And, for some reason lost in the mists of time, we need to do that.
- What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem.
- And in our sandwich, the grated cheese, when melted, got lost in the shuffle of the other ingredients.
- The theory, however, broke down; both customers and employees got lost in the shuffle.
lost1 lost2 adjective
lostlost2 ●●● S2 W3 adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- "Did you understand him?" "No, I'm completely lost."
- a lost dog
- a lost tourist
- Divers are searching for the plane's lost flight recorder.
- I've looked everywhere for the car keys. I think they must be lost.
- My keys are lost again.
- New computer systems could save us millions of dollars in lost time.
- Several good business opportunities have been lost.
- the lost dreams of her youth
- You haven't gotten my letter yet? It must have gotten lost in the mail.
- Never mind, say market optimists: the first quarter of 1991 promises to make up much lost ground.
- Of course, you might live perfectly happily together but you might also hanker for your lost independence.
- Such closures could cost mine companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost production.
- The lost or damaged car will then belong to us.
Longman Language Activatorto be lost
to not know where you are, or not know the way to the place that you want to go to: · Excuse me, I'm lost. Could you tell me where the station is, please?· Eventually the three children realized they were lost.
if you do not know where you are , you do not recognize the place that you are in: · I really don't know where we are - can I take a look at the map.· By this time she no longer knew where she was, and was beginning to panic.
to become lost · I'll give you a map so that you don't get lost.· Sorry we're so late. We got lost.
if you lose your way , you go in the wrong direction or take the wrong road when you are trying to go somewhere: · The climbers had lost their way in the dark.· If you lose your way, just stop and ask someone.
to become confused about which direction you should be going in, in a place that you do not know well: · She soon lost her bearings in the dense forest.· I was trying to get to the A22 and lost my bearings a bit in all the country lanes.
a place where it is easy to get lost a place where it is very easy to become lost, because it has a large number of paths, passages, or narrow streets that cross each other: maze/labyrinth of: · The old town is a labyrinth of narrow streets, with shops selling everything you could imagine.· The complex is a maze of car-ramps and driveways with signs pointing in all directions.
to not use an opportunity: miss a chance/an opportunity of · Denise never misses the chance of a free meal.miss a chance/an opportunity to do something · Don't miss this great opportunity to fly for half price.· Dan never misses an opportunity to remind me that I still owe him money.miss your chance/opportunity · Jerry's already sold the car to someone else. You've missed your chance.
to not use the chance to do something enjoyable or useful, especially when this is not a good thing: · If you don't come to the picnic you'll miss out on all the fun.· I don't want to be the type of father who is so busy he misses out on his daughter's childhood.
informal to waste a chance that you had to do or get something good: · Don't panic and talk too much in the interview or you'll really blow it.· I was afraid I'd blown my chance but she agreed to go out again on Saturday night.blow your chances of doing something: · She started running much too fast at the beginning and blew her chances of winning the race.
informal to be too late to use an opportunity to do something good: · Buy your shares in the company now or you'll miss the boat.· He didn't get his application in early enough so he missed the boat.
to not use a good opportunity when you are able to, especially an opportunity that you will not get again: · We had an opportunity to win the championship last season and we let it slip through our fingers.
an opportunity that you wasted by not using it to become successful, enjoy yourself etc: · If you don't take the job it'll just be another lost opportunity in your life.
to not like someone because of something they have done to dislike someone for a particular reason, although the reason is not clear: · Sam has something against me.· Your brother's got something against me. God knows what.· She probably has something against men.
informal if someone has it in for you, they dislike you and are always looking for ways to hurt you, especially because of something you have done in the past: · I don't know why anybody would have it in for Eddy. He's a really nice guy.· Sometimes I think my supervisor has it in for me.
to continue to dislike someone and feel angry with them, because you believe they harmed you in the past and you have not forgiven them: · She bore a grudge for a long time.· It isn't in that woman's nature to bear grudges.bear a grudge against: · He bore a grudge against my father for years.
if there is no love lost between two people, they dislike each other and do not have a friendly relationship: · Sounds like there's not a lot of love lost between the two of you.· It is clear from these letters that there was no love lost between the Princess and her stepmother.
certain to fail something that is pointless is unlikely to have a very useful or successful result, so it would be better not to do it or try it: · The argument was completely pointless.· Most people think the project is a pointless waste of money.pointless exercise: · Speculating like that was always a pointless exercise, but he did it nevertheless.it is pointless to do something: · It's pointless to take notes and then never look at them again.it is pointless doing something: · She decided it was pointless trying to work while her mind was on other things.
especially spoken something that is a waste of time is unlikely to achieve any useful result, so you would be wasting your time if you tried to do it: · Many people think that complaining about bad service is a waste of time.a complete/total waste of time: · These meetings are a complete waste of time. Nothing ever gets decided.it is a waste of time doing something: · It's a waste of time going to the doctor - he'll just tell you to get plenty of rest.
spoken say this when you think that it is useless to do something because you will not achieve anything useful by doing it: · "Why don't you try to explain things to him?" "There's no point, he never listens."· I was going to buy a new car, but what's the point when my old one's perfectly all right?there's no point (in) doing something: · There's no point getting a new carpet until the decorating's done.what's the point in/of doing something?: · What's the point of giving a signal when there are no other cars around to see it?
not having any chance at all of succeeding: · Attempts to clean up the environment are doomed unless businesses take a leading role.· Within a few months she realized that her marriage was doomed.doomed to failure: · If you refuse to provide any information to the user, then your computer program is doomed to failure.doomed from the start: · Their business venture was doomed from the start, as they did not have the necessary capital.
something that you try to make successful, although it seems very clear to other people that it cannot succeed: · At first it seemed the attempt to save the species was a lost cause.· The miners' strike of 1984 turned out to be a lost cause.
British an idea or plan that will definitely not be successful: · Everybody would prefer a lower rate of tax, but that that is a non-starter economically.· The project would have been a non-starter without the help of Judith Glyn.
someone or something that you cannot find a missing object is lost and may have been stolen; a missing person cannot be found and may be in danger: · She's been missing for three days now, and we're very worried.· The painting, which has been missing for almost half a century, only turned up when the owner of the house died.missing from: · Police are 'very concerned' for the safety of a teenager who's been missing from home for three days. · Two pages were missing from my copy of the report.go missing (from) British (=become lost or be stolen): · A small sum of money went missing from the office last night.report somebody/something missing (from) (=tell someone in authority that someone or something is lost or stolen): · The man had reported his girlfriend missing three days after she disappeared.
if something is lost , no-one knows where it is: · I've looked everywhere for the car keys. I think they must be lost.· Divers are searching for the plane's lost flight recorder.get lost: · You haven't gotten my letter yet? It must have gotten lost in the mail.
if something or someone disappears , they cannot be found and you think they may have been stolen or may be in danger: · I thought I had a copy of the notes, but they seem to have disappeared somewhere.· The parents of an art student who disappeared in the middle of his exams have made an emotional plea for him to come home.disappear from: · The letter had mysteriously disappeared from the file overnight.
if someone or something is nowhere to be seen or nowhere to be found , you have looked everywhere for them but still cannot find them: · Our tour guide was nowhere to be seen, so we set off to explore the city alone.· She'd looked everywhere for her glasses, but they were nowhere to be found.
when someone is thinking about something someone who is thoughtful has a serious expression on their face and does not say anything, because they are thinking deeply about something: · Suddenly he became more thoughtful, and his eyes filmed over with sadness.· My mother sat and watched me eating my food with a thoughtful expression on her face -- I could tell she had something to say.
thinking deeply about something and seeming a little sad - use this especially in literary contexts: · He kept looking over at her sad, pensive face.· As he ended his trip, the usually upbeat Mr. Liebenow was in a pensive mood.
to be thinking so deeply about something that you do not notice what is happening around you: · She'd been so deep in thought, she hadn't heard the man open the dining room door.· Her mother stood folding the wash, lost in thought.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY I got thoroughly lost on the way here. She’s a great friend and I’d be lost without her. Harry just stood there, lost in thought.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES He has lost his composure under the pressure of the situation. The Democrats lost control of Congress in the last election. Davidson lost control of himself and started yelling. When she lost her looks (=became less attractive) she found it difficult to get work. It cost the country $4 million in lost productivity. Strikes have cost £20 million in lost revenues. Life seemed to have lost its savour for him. His mind wandered, and he lost the thread of what she was saying (=was no longer able to understand it). I lost touch with (=stopped writing or talking to) Julie after we moved. King obviously hasn’t lost his touch (=lost his ability) – his latest book sold in the millions. I just lost all track of time.
I got thoroughly lost on the way here. She’s a great friend and I’d be lost without her. Harry just stood there, lost in thought.· His favourite shirt had lost a button.
He has lost his composure under the pressure of the situation. The Democrats lost control of Congress in the last election. Davidson lost control of himself and started yelling. When she lost her looks (=became less attractive) she found it difficult to get work. (=one you do not use)· Many people see the failed talks as a missed opportunity for peace.
· I'm afraid the cheque must have got lost in the post.
It cost the country $4 million in lost productivity. Strikes have cost £20 million in lost revenues. Life seemed to have lost its savour for him. formal (=be drowned in the sea)· His father had been lost at sea three months before.
His mind wandered, and he lost the thread of what she was saying (=was no longer able to understand it). I lost touch with (=stopped writing or talking to) Julie after we moved. King obviously hasn’t lost his touch (=lost his ability) – his latest book sold in the millions. I just lost all track of time. (=the time long ago when you were young)· He wept for his lost youth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· What did Billy Corkin do that Will Carling could never do, he asks long lost friends.· Meanwhile, the young stylist must find her long lost sister before her wedding on Saturday and time is running out.
NOUN· It's thought to have cost the Dickens and Jones department store £100,000 in lost business.· Sandone said that there were other instances of lost business directly traceable to the suit.· How much does all this cost you in lost production, lost business opportunities, inefficiency?· At a recent meeting with bus company representatives councillors and officers were sceptical about the claims in lost business.· For a large number of firms it also represents a substantial lost business opportunity.
· My patron saint was Saint Jude, the patron of lost causes.· A lost cause, the old woman reflected sadly.· Stand by your principles but don't waste time on lost causes.· All credit to Bann, though for not shutting-up-shop on an already lost cause as Mark Carson pegged it back.· It's seems that their marriage is a lost cause in which possess the husband and wife not real affection for one another.· But they are not completely lost causes.· When he took his second 6 at the ninth after tangling with bushes, he looked a lost cause.· In one sense, Mentmore was a lost cause even before we began.
· Which is why Caroline likes nursing him as if he were still a lost child.· The Old Slann had fallen, leaving their lost children to battle the daemons alone.
· The lost earnings should be calculated tax year by tax year and the appropriate rates of tax adopted.
· It marked a recovery of lost ground rather than any significant advance to new territory.· Merchant bank Warburg also lost ground, down 45p to 479p after a 44% slump in half-year profits to £51m.· Never mind, say market optimists: the first quarter of 1991 promises to make up much lost ground.· The recent price recovery can not make up for that much lost ground.· Hambros also lost ground, down 11p at 233p, after a 34% drop in interim figures.· Fellow stores groups also lost ground as dealers decided the euphoria about the New Year sales had been overdone.· However, such was A Smooth One's superiority that she quickly made up the lost ground to score by four lengths.
· If the stock level is consistently too low, lost sales may eventually lead to lost jobs.· It was a great way to get revenge for various slights, lost jobs, bad reviews or even undeserved success.
· In it's place a memorial to their lost lives.· Rather than recovering lost languages, John Friedman is recovering lost lives.
· Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend, and after three years he's still obsessed with the search for his lost love.· Shelley felt the familiar pang of heartache and lost love as their eyes met.· And oh Fergus, my dear, lost love, am I doing you so much harm?· It had proved quite an exciting substitute for lost love, and a pacifier in that time of grave trouble.· Assuming the form of the lost love, the spirit comes in a dream to sexually possess the abandoned one.· But all the time he himself was carrying his own torch for a lost love.
· Norton did sell nearly 200 bikes in the year 1989-1990, but lost money on every one of them.· The Obey bill also aimed to directly limit PACs and to create public finance in order to replace lost money.· With both of these, you'd have lost money, but they are exceptions.· Judge Keith Matthewman said it was a well-planned scheme and if it had worked thousands of people would have lost money.· I had published several small books myself, but I always lost money.· We continued to cut costs and still lost money.· Grade had overstretched himself and lost money heavily on box office flops such as Raise the Titanic and biblical epics.· Relying on these reports, Hedley Byrne incurred expenditure and lost money when its customer went into liquidation.
· As a seasoned business traveller I am constantly amazed at all the lost opportunities to build customer loyalty.· But he missed his chance, and spent the next seven years trying to catch up on his lost opportunity.· One of these was the rule of lost opportunity or effective last chance.· Taking things for granted or failing to seek new understanding indicates a lost opportunity for adding to the store of experience.· Chaplin's non-appearance before the UnAmerican Activities Committee was one of the great lost opportunities of both their careers.· And of course they will suffer consequences - at the very least those of wasted time and lost opportunities.
· By November 1984 the strike had cost 55.5 million tonnes of coal in lost production.· Such closures could cost mine companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost production.· Bird damage costs farmers millions of pounds a year in lost production.· How much does all this cost you in lost production, lost business opportunities, inefficiency?· People eat more chocolate in winter; and we've a fortnight's lost production to make up.
· Sickness absence is a big problem both in terms of lost productivity and cost and in terms of employees' wellbeing.· The restrictions on job-placement tests may be costing billions of dollars annually in lost productivity.· Alcohol abuse undoubtedly has a cost, through treatment, accidents and lost productivity.
· He looks like lost property now.· Since plaintiffs naturally inclined to value their lost property exorbitantly, defendants did have reason to think seriously about restoring it.· Basically the police will regard the child as lost property to be returned as soon as possible.
· Firms within enterprise zones would not pay rates for ten years, local government being reimbursed for lost revenue by the Treasury.· The inducement to give is greater, but by the same token there is a cost to the Exchequer in lost revenue.
· When Bogdanov refused, Mr Goddard said he intended to charge the company at least £1,650 to cover lost sales.· It was estimated that the disruption cost retailers around £5m in lost sales.· Damaged stock means lost sales, and lost sales mean less profit.· If the stock level is consistently too low, lost sales may eventually lead to lost jobs.
· Despite the injustice, he never lost sight of his love for football, winning two shields at inter-prison soccer matches.· McCready had watched him enter the corridor between the two border posts, then lost sight of him.· The glider pilot was dazzled for a moment and lost sight of the tug.· And even in the very last analysis, those participant accounts must not be entirely lost sight of.· This positive facilitating function should not be lost sight of in our study of the negative controlling function.· You see, she never lost sight of her dream and everyone was welcome to share it.· Despite his international acclaim, Prof Gibson never lost sight of his roots.· Still, she never lost sight of the smaller details that made the operation run smoothly.
· The howling wind outside sounded like the wailing of lost souls.· Those lost souls are so impoverished that they shave their heads in order that they may rub alcohol into them.· And Sam Spiro - he had been like a lost soul since his wife died.· There were some poor lost souls last week at the Ordnance Survey office in Chester.· They were the voices of lost souls, all taking their lead from the one voice that had spoken Cardiff's name.· Yet somehow she was very much part of the group and her loudness underlined yet another lost soul.· Imagine her delight when a lost soul returns, through her good offices, to the fold.· A few lost souls wander aimlessly down to the front and stare up at Bono's frantic, manic animation, briefly bemused.
· Also, strikes are responsible for an almost negligible amount of lost time compared with total hours worked by the employed population.· He was eager to make up for lost time and published prolifically.· None the less, we immediately started our other meetings to make up for lost time.· Contractor recordable and lost time accident rates were also a fraction of the industry average.· After a century or so of political apathy, Hong Kong's young people were making up for lost time.· Breakdowns were the major causes of lost time and extra work.· Meanwhile Keith and Mae are settling down to married life, making up for lost time.
· The new novel usually starts from where one is, seldom from a vision of a lost world or future utopia.· It's a lost world now - lost as Conan Doyle's!· After what she had gone through she knew she could not reconstruct the universe, only recapture her own lost world.· These latter writers were trying to re-enter the lost world of childhood after first discarding the traditional concept of the afterlife.
· The whole house smelled of it, of lost youth shrivelled up into a kind of dust.· It is for ourselves and our lost youth we weep.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► all is not lost► Get lost!PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the lost-and-found
- It's easy for your main points to get lost in the middle of a long essay.
- A major issue in hypermedia, however, is the danger of users getting lost among the complex network of multimedia nodes.
- Discovering the real Tuscany, we had learned, requires getting lost.
- In spite of all I could do, it was getting tough to keep from getting lost.
- One could easily get lost in there for ever, Moira F. said.
- One of them got lost in the corridors and another dropped some important equipment into the sea.
- The many tracks through the woods make it easy to get lost - but that's never bothered me.
- We could get lost in those woods at night, paint or no paint.
- Without my markers I was afraid of getting lost.
- Eventually the three children realized they were lost.
- Excuse me, I'm lost. Could you tell me where the station is, please?
- But that Spring Hill may be lost for ever, some residents say.
- He found himself in enormous buildings, with a labyrinth of rooms, and he was lost in the pile.
- Many of these will be lost for ever, before they have even been named.
- No time was lost in getting under way.
- None of this was lost on Kip.
- She's also a friend and I'd be lost without her.
- The danger was lost on those below who thought he was engaging in a new piece of daring.
- Without them he would be lost.
- All my warnings were completely lost on Beth.
- The joke was lost on Chris.
- But his message was lost on a people enjoying an economic and political freedom that he had never allowed them.
- It was lost on Duncan, who smiled courteously at the police inspector.
- Judging from his passive-Madonna performance as Gilbert Grape, Depp probably would be lost on a stage.
- None of this was lost on Kip.
- The last-minute change saved his life: 61 Squadron's aircraft was lost on the raid.
- To his bemusement there was no chill, or else the chill was lost on him.
- What is won on the swings is lost on the roundabouts.
- For once in her life, she was lost for words, and uncertain of her argumentative ground.
- He was lost for words at the time, and had to apologise and thank the donors later in private.
- At first it seemed the attempt to save the species was a lost cause.
- The miners' strike of 1984 turned out to be a lost cause.
- But they are not completely lost causes.
- In recent years he had come to feel that he was pouring all his energies into a lost cause.
- It's seems that their marriage is a lost cause in which possess the husband and wife not real affection for one another.
- Like his rebel ancestor, Buchanan is fighting a lost cause with prideful determination despite overwhelming odds.
- Like the languages in which it was born, this seems a lost cause to many.
- My patron saint was Saint Jude, the patron of lost causes.
- Stand by your principles but don't waste time on lost causes.
- That, however, is a lost cause.
- Also patron of lost souls and mariners.
- Also patron of infants and lost souls.
- And Sam Spiro - he had been like a lost soul since his wife died.
- How long had I been wandering about Warsaw like a lost soul?
- Ralph could hear himself telling this story to some lost soul in a diner.
- The howling wind outside sounded like the wailing of lost souls.
- There were some poor lost souls last week at the Ordnance Survey office in Chester.
- Those lost souls are so impoverished that they shave their heads in order that they may rub alcohol into them.
- A private parking garage in one building has lost business.
- Damaged stock means lost sales, and lost sales mean less profit.
- Foot-and-mouth has already cost £51million in lost sales of livestock.
- It's thought to have cost the Dickens and Jones department store £100,000 in lost business.
- It was estimated that the disruption cost retailers around £5m in lost sales.
- When Bogdanov refused, Mr Goddard said he intended to charge the company at least £1,650 to cover lost sales.
- I'd be lost without all your help.
- Energy expressed in a passive way is lost for ever.
- I walked on and yet it was all new and different and I realized I was lost again.
- I was lost in a little ocean of fog.
- Many pilots will drift into other careers and be lost to the industry for good.
- Some will revel in having more time for themselves; others will feel lost.
- Sometimes, valuable time can be lost.
- The sickening feel of woollen gloves being pulled on to your hands and hitting and blunting your fingertips so touch was lost.
- To his bemusement there was no chill, or else the chill was lost on him.
- After much searching, the village people gave Kay up for dead.
- Gray had been missing for over a year, and his wife was ready to give him up for dead.
- It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh.
- On the thirteenth day, Kasturbai knelt before a sacred plant and prayed; she had given him up for lost.
- There's no love lost between Bart and Stephen.
- He's girl crazy! He went to a boys' school and now he's making up for lost time.
- The bus driver was speeding to make up for lost time.
- After a century or so of political apathy, Hong Kong's young people were making up for lost time.
- He was eager to make up for lost time and published prolifically.
- Meanwhile Keith and Mae are settling down to married life, making up for lost time.
- None the less, we immediately started our other meetings to make up for lost time.
- Once I settled into my new life, I did everything I could to make up for lost time.
- Time to make up for lost time.
- And, for some reason lost in the mists of time, we need to do that.
- What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem.
- And in our sandwich, the grated cheese, when melted, got lost in the shuffle of the other ingredients.
- The theory, however, broke down; both customers and employees got lost in the shuffle.
WORD FAMILYnounloserlossadjectivelostverblose
1cannot find your way if you are lost, you do not know where you are and are unable to find your way somewhere: ‘Are you lost?’ the driver asked. I got thoroughly lost on the way here. a lost child2cannot be found if something is lost, you had it but cannot now find it SYN missing: two boys searching for a lost ball3wasted a)lost time or opportunities have not been used in the way that would have given you the greatest advantage: It’ll be impossible to make up the lost time. b)lost sales/business/earnings etc sales, business etc that you could have had but did not: The strike has cost the company £2 million in lost revenue.4feel/be lost to not feel confident about what to do or how to behave: It’s not unusual to feel rather lost when you first start college. She’s a great friend and I’d be lost without her.5Get lost! spoken used to rudely tell someone to go away or to stop annoying you6not noticing [not before noun] thinking so hard about something, or being so interested in something, that you do not notice what is happening around youlost in Harry just stood there, lost in thought. Amy lay on her bed, totally lost in her book.7get lost (in something) to be forgotten or not noticed in a complicated process or in a busy time: It’s easy for your main points to get lost in a long speech.8not understand be lost to be completely confused by a complicated explanation: ‘Do you understand what I mean?’ ‘Not really. I’m a bit lost.’9be lost on somebody if something is lost on someone, they do not understand or want to accept it: The joke was completely lost on Chris.10be lost for words to be unable to say anything because you are very surprised, upset etc: For once in her life, she was lost for words.11not existing [only before noun] that no longer exists or that you no longer have: the relics of a lost civilization She wept for her broken dreams and lost youth.12lost cause something that has no chance of succeeding: Trying to interest my son in classical music is a lost cause.13lost soul someone who does not seem to know where they are or what to do – often used humorously14all is not lost used to say that success is still possible, even though there have been problems or failures → give somebody up for dead/lost etc at give up, long-lost, → make up for lost time at make up for, → there is no love lost between somebody and somebody at love2(10)