lose

lose is a 4-letter English word with 21 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle.
2. transitive verb. To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health.
3. transitive verb. Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction.
4. transitive verb. To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way.
5. transitive verb. To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge.
6. transitive verb. To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.
7. transitive verb. To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said.
8. transitive verb. To cause to part with; to deprive of.
9. transitive verb. To prevent from gaining or obtaining.
10. intransitive verb. To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest.
11. verb. be set at a disadvantage

    "This author really suffers in translation"

    Synonyms: suffer

12. verb. fail to win

    "We lost the battle but we won the war"

13. verb. retreat

    Synonyms: recede

14. verb. place (something) where one cannot find it again

    "I misplaced my eyeglasses"

    Synonyms: mislay, misplace

15. verb. 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"

16. verb. fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

    "I missed that remark"

    "She missed his point"

    Synonyms: miss

17. verb. allow to go out of sight

    "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"

18. verb. miss from one's possessions; lose sight of

    "I've lost my glasses again!"

19. verb. 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"

20. verb. fail to get or obtain

    "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"

21. verb. 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"

Synonyms

suffer, recede, mislay, misplace, miss

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lose:

leos, oles, sloe, sole

Common word forms

loser, loses, losing

Words from these letters

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