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"; "I've lost my glasses again!"
    
2. Fail to win
   "We lost the battle but we won the war"
    
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. Fail to get or obtain
   "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"
    
5. Allow to go out of sight or mind
   "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"; "the lost tribe"; "lose the crowds by climbing a mountain"
    
6. Fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
   "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!";
   - turn a loss
    
7. Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
   "We lost part of what he said";
   - miss
    
8. Withdraw, as from reality
   "he lost himself in his music"
    
9. Be set at a disadvantage
   "The painting loses something in this light";
   - suffer
    
10. To remove
    "he lose his clothes";
    - shed, cast, cast off, throw off, drop

Sounds like: Lorentz, Lorlose

Derived forms: lost, loses, losing

Type of: ache, act, decline, fail, go wrong, hurt, lack, miscarry, miss, move, remove, seclude, sequester, sequestrate, suffer, take, take away, withdraw, worsen

Antonym: break even, find, gain, hold on, profit, win

Encyclopedia: Lose