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Synonyms for LOSE
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Wiktionary
loseverb
Synonyms:
leave behind, mislayAntonyms:
discover, procure, find, come across, acquire, gain, snag, pick up, getloseverb
Antonyms:
winloseverb
loseverb
loseverb
Antonyms:
findloseverb
To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
When we get into the building, please lose the hat.
Synonyms:
ditch, get rid of, jettison, drop, dumpAntonyms:
pick up
English Synonyms and Antonyms
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
loseverb
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"
Synonyms:
fall back, miss, mislay, recede, suffer, misplace, fall behind, drop off, turn a lossAntonyms:
acquire, find, regain, turn a profit, win, profit, gain, break even, hold on, keeploseverb
fail to win
"We lost the battle but we won the war"
Synonyms:
fall back, miss, mislay, recede, suffer, misplace, fall behind, drop off, turn a lossAntonyms:
hold on, profit, find, turn a profit, acquire, gain, regain, win, keep, break evenloseverb
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"
Synonyms:
fall back, miss, mislay, recede, suffer, misplace, fall behind, drop off, turn a lossAntonyms:
keep, win, acquire, turn a profit, break even, find, profit, regain, hold on, gainmisplace, mislay, loseverb
place (something) where one cannot find it again
"I misplaced my eyeglasses"
Synonyms:
fall back, lose, miss, mislay, recede, suffer, misplace, fall behind, drop off, turn a lossAntonyms:
hold on, find, regain, break even, win, acquire, gain, keep, turn a profit, profitloseverb
miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
"I've lost my glasses again!"
Synonyms:
fall back, miss, mislay, recede, suffer, misplace, fall behind, drop off, turn a lossAntonyms:
hold on, win, turn a profit, gain, regain, acquire, break even, find, profit, keeploseverb
allow to go out of sight
"The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"
Synonyms:
fall back, miss, mislay, recede, suffer, misplace, fall behind, drop off, turn a lossAntonyms:
turn a profit, win, acquire, break even, find, regain, keep, hold on, gain, profitlose, turn a lossverb
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"
Synonyms:
fall back, lose, miss, mislay, recede, suffer, misplace, fall behind, drop off, turn a lossAntonyms:
hold on, find, turn a profit, regain, keep, break even, win, profit, acquire, gainloseverb
fail to get or obtain
"I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"
Synonyms:
fall back, miss, mislay, recede, suffer, misplace, fall behind, drop off, turn a lossAntonyms:
hold on, win, break even, profit, keep, gain, find, regain, acquire, turn a profitfall back, lose, drop off, fall behind, recedeverb
retreat
Synonyms:
unload, fall asleep, misplace, lose, draw back, mislay, drop off, retire, withdraw, retreat, turn a loss, lapse, fall away, drift off, dope off, relapse, recidivate, fall back, dawdle, pull away, drop away, recur, fall behind, resort, set down, recede, put down, doze off, move back, nod off, regress, drop, suffer, discharge, miss, drowse off, retrogress, lag, pull back, slip, flake outAntonyms:
gain, break even, win, find, hold on, acquire, regain, keep, turn a profit, profitmiss, loseverb
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"
Synonyms:
miss, mislay, turn a loss, fall behind, misplace, lose, omit, overlook, fall back, lack, overleap, suffer, drop, leave out, neglect, recede, drop off, pretermit, escapeAntonyms:
turn a profit, acquire, break even, gain, regain, win, keep, profit, find, hold onsuffer, loseverb
be set at a disadvantage
"This author really suffers in translation"
Synonyms:
miss, get, have, put up, mislay, stand, hurt, abide, fall behind, support, misplace, stomach, digest, suffer, fall back, brook, stick out, tolerate, sustain, turn a loss, meet, recede, endure, drop off, bear, ache, loseAntonyms:
break even, hold on, find, win, acquire, turn a profit, regain, gain, profit, keep
Matched Categories
Dictionary of English Synonymes
loseverb
Synonyms:
be deprived of, fail to keep, let slip, let slip through the fingersloseverb
Synonyms:
forfeit, fail to win, fail to obtainloseverb
Synonyms:
waste, squander, misspend, throw away, make no use ofloseverb
Synonyms:
miss, wander fromloseverb
Synonyms:
be bereaved of, be deprived of
Suggested Resources
LOSE
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#26 | have | |
#77 | get | |
#148 | support | |
#859 | meet | |
#972 | loss | |
#1079 | lost | |
#1778 | stand | |
#1864 | resort | |
#1980 | waste | |
#2032 | miss | |
#2158 | drop | |
#2490 | bear | |
#2498 | lack | |
#2636 | fail | |
#3169 | lose | |
#4430 | escape | |
#4562 | digest | |
#5093 | hurt | |
#5110 | slip | |
#5211 | losing | |
#5227 | loose | |
#5685 | discharge | |
#6848 | suffer | |
#7838 | stomach | |
#8056 | dump | |
#8206 | retreat | |
#8245 | shed | |
#8863 | brook | |
#10524 | withdraw | |
#11158 | neglect | |
#11256 | sustain | |
#11685 | loses | |
#12106 | abide | |
#12529 | retire | |
#13205 | misplace | |
#14415 | wasting | |
#14447 | lag | |
#14530 | abandon | |
#15262 | loser | |
#15831 | ditch | |
#17899 | endure | |
#17963 | tolerate | |
#19766 | omit | |
#20010 | overlook | |
#21097 | lapse | |
#25141 | relapse | |
#25311 | ache | |
#28374 | unload | |
#29516 | forfeit | |
#39147 | regress | |
#46382 | recur | |
#63983 | recede | |
#100903 | jettison | |
#218314 | dawdle |
How to use LOSE in a sentence?
The Stonewall Inn is really an irreplaceable historic location, a site that is so meaningful and represents a time when our community came together and stood up and fought for our right to exist - that's something we never want to lose.
In Cobham, we stand to lose yet another great British defense manufacturer to foreign ownership, in one of its first major economic decisions, the government is not taking back control so much as handing it away.
We expect that with the exit of Arvind Subramanian, the Modi government will listen to domestic experts, the country would not lose anything if these foreign economists leave the country.
what society dictates, we consume, cattle gathering around learning devices called television, mouths opening wider while addictive morsels of consumerism are violently jammed into us and we lose more bits and pieces of our collective identity daily.
For too long, we Republicans have been content to lose the black vote because we found that we could win elections without it, when we gave up on trying to win the support of African-Americans, we lost our moral legitimacy as the party of Lincoln.
Translations for LOSE
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- خَسِرَ, خسر, فقد, أضاعArabic
- губляць, губіць, траціцьBelarusian
- губя, загубвамBulgarian
- হারাBengali
- perdreCatalan, Valencian
- prohrát, shodit, ztratit, zhubnoutCzech
- tabe, misteDanish
- verlierenGerman
- perdiEsperanto
- fracasar, perderSpanish
- galduBasque
- گم کردن, دور انداختن, از دست دادن, زدودن, باختنPersian
- menettää, hävitäFinnish
- perdreFrench
- caillIrish
- caillScottish Gaelic
- perderGalician
- elveszít, veszítHungarian
- պարտվել, կորցնել, կրվելArmenian
- kalah, hilangIndonesian
- perdarIdo
- perdereItalian
- 失う, なくす, 負ける, 落とすJapanese
- 감소, 상실, 잃다Korean
- دۆڕاندن, ji dest dan, بزر کردنKurdish
- perdo, āmittō, deerro, ero viaLatin
- netèkti, praràstiLithuanian
- zaudētLatvian
- hilangMalay
- verliezen, afvallenDutch
- misteNorwegian
- baa honinééhNavajo, Navaho
- pèrdre, pèrderOccitan
- tracić, przegrywać, gubićPolish
- perder de vista, perder, emagrecerPortuguese
- chinkay, chinkachiyQuechua
- pearder, perder, piarderRomansh
- pierdeRomanian
- похудеть, сбросить, проиграть, худеть, тeрять, проигрывать, пoтeрять, потерятьRussian
- perdiri, perdere, peldere, peldiriSardinian
- schudnúť, prísť o (niečo), stratiť, prehraťSlovak
- izgubitiSlovene
- förlora, tappa, tappa bort, bliva av med, varda av med, mistaSwedish
- కోల్పోవు, ఓడిపోవుTelugu
- kaybetmek, kilo vermek, kilo kaybetmek, zayıflamak, gözden kaçırmakTurkish
- băng hà, mấtVietnamese
- piedeWalloon
- 失去Chinese
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