loseverb
uk/luːz/us/luːz/lost, lostlose verb (NOT HAVE)
A2 [ T ] to no longer have something because you do not know where it is:
A2 [ T ] to have something or someone taken away from you:
B2 [ T ] to stop feeling something:
B1 [ T ] to have less of something than you had before:
B2 [ T ] If you lose time, you waste it:
[ T ] If a clock loses time, it goes more slowly than it should:
[ T ] informal to get rid of something:
C1 A business that is losing money is spending more money than it is receiving:
More examples
- Anyone who gambles on the stock exchange has to be prepared to lose money.
- "I'm afraid I've lost that wallet you gave me." "Well, never mind, I can easily buy you another one."
- I lost my notes so I had to make up the speech as I went along.
- He hasn't written to me recently - perhaps he's lost my address.
- He moaned with pain before losing consciousness.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Losing and loss
- astray
- black hole
- disappear
- escape
- forfeit
- get to
- haemorrhage
- kiss
- lose your way idiom
- loss
- lost
- mislay
- misplace
- miss
- say
- slip away
- slip through sb's fingers idiom
- walkabout
- wave
- wave/say goodbye to sth idiom
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lose verb (BE DEFEATED)
B1 [ I or T ] to fail to succeed in a game, competition, etc.:
More examples
- I won the first game, and then lost the next two.
- Our team lost when we scored an own goal late in the second half.
- They boasted that they had never lost a single game.
- He was bitterly disappointed when he lost the leadership contest.
- She says that she will resign if she loses the vote.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Losing and being defeated
- admit
- battering
- capitulate
- defeat
- downfall
- drubbing
- fallen
- give
- give in
- go
- go down
- knuckle under
- leave, go off, etc. with your tail between your legs idiom
- say
- squeaker
- tail
- throw
- throw in the towel idiom 1
- tie
- you win! idiom
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