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Meaning of lose
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lose
v 1: fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either
physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse
when she left it unattended on her seat" [ant: {hold on},
{keep}]
2: fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war" [ant:
{win}]
3: suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She
lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to
adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed
her"
4: place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I
misplaced my eyeglasses" [syn: {misplace}, {mislay}, {lose}]
5: miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my
glasses again!" [ant: {find}, {regain}]
6: allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was
shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"
7: fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to
profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad
investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first
year" [syn: {lose}, {turn a loss}] [ant: {break even},
{profit}, {turn a profit}]
8: fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a
year abroad" [ant: {acquire}, {gain}, {win}]
9: retreat [syn: {fall back}, {lose}, {drop off}, {fall behind},
{recede}] [ant: {advance}, {gain}, {gain ground}, {get
ahead}, {make headway}, {pull ahead}, {win}]
10: fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I
missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part
of what he said" [syn: {miss}, {lose}]
11: be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in
translation" [syn: {suffer}, {lose}]
WordNet ® Princeton University. http://wordnet.princeton.edu
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