Lose
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.
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.
Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction.
To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way.
To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge.
To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.
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.
To cause to part with; to deprive of.
To prevent from gaining or obtaining.
To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest.
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Lose Quotations
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad Ali
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin
Lose Translations
lose in Afrikaans is verloor
lose in Dutch is verbeuren, opgeven, kwijtraken
lose in Finnish is kadottaa
lose in French is perdent, perdez, perdons, perdre, perds
lose in German is verliere, verlieren
lose in Italian is perdere, perdo
lose in Latin is amitto, omitto
lose in Norwegian is tape, saktne, miste
lose in Portuguese is perca, perder
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