LOSE
Definition of LOSE
- (verb)fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
- (verb)fail to win
- (verb)suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
- (verb)miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
- (verb)allow to go out of sight or mind
- (verb)fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
- (verb)fail to get or obtain
- (verb)fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- (verb)withdraw, as from reality
- (verb)be set at a disadvantage