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

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