lose

Definitions of lose in various dictionaries:

verb - fail to keep or to maintain

verb - fail to win

verb - suffer the loss of a person through death or removal

verb - place (something) where one cannot find it again

verb - miss from one's possessions

verb - allow to go out of sight

verb - fail to make money in a business

verb - fail to get or obtain

verb - retreat

verb - fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

verb - be set at a disadvantage

To be unsuccessful in retaining possession of; mislay: He’s always losing his keys on the way out the door.

To come to be deprived of the ownership, care, or control of (something one has had), as by negligence, accident, or theft: I’ve lost three umbrellas this year.

To be deprived of (something one has had): lost their lives; lost her youth through hardship.

To be bereaved of: lost his wife.

To be unable to keep alive: a doctor who has lost very few patients.

To be unable to maintain, sustain, or keep: lost everything in the stock market crash; is losing supporters by changing his mind.

To fail to win; fail in: lost the game; lost the court case.

To fail to use or take advantage of: Don’t lose a chance to improve your position.

To fail to hear, see, or understand: We lost the plane in the fog.

To let (oneself) become unable to find the way.

To remove (oneself), as from everyday reality into a fantasy world.

To rid oneself of: lost five pounds.

To consume aimlessly; waste: lost a week in idle occupations.

To stray or wander from: lose one’s way.

To elude or outdistance: lost their pursuers.

To be outdistanced by: chased the thieves but lost them.

To become slow by (a specified amount of time).

To cause or result in the loss of: Failure to reply to the advertisement lost her the job.

To cause to be destroyed.

To cause to be damned.

To suffer loss.

To be defeated.

To operate or run slow.

To operate too slowly.

To delay advancement.

adj - to come to be without and be unable to find [v LOST, LOSING, LOSES] : LOSABLE