<b><font size="4">"lose"</font></b><br/><b>verb</b> <ol> <li>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: <a href="../keep.html">keep</a>] </li> <li>fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war" [ant: <a href="../win.html">win</a>] </li> <li>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" </li> <li>place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses" [syn: <a href="../misplace.html">misplace</a>, <a href="../mislay.html">mislay</a>] </li> <li>miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!" [ant: <a href="../find.html">find</a>] </li> <li>allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light" </li> <li>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: <a href="/">turn a loss</a>] [ant: <a href="../profit.html">profit</a>, <a href="/">break even</a>] </li> <li>fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad" [ant: <a href="../acquire.html">acquire</a>] </li> <li>retreat [syn: <a href="/">fall back</a>, <a href="/">drop off</a>, <a href="/">fall behind</a>, <a href="../recede.html">recede</a>] [ant: <a href="../gain.html">gain</a>] </li> <li>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: <a href="../miss.html">miss</a>] </li> <li>be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation" [syn: <a href="../suffer.html">suffer</a>] [also: <a href="/">lost</a>]</li> </ol> Source: <a href="../lose.html">http://www.word.sc/lose</a>

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