Lose is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LOSE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to misplace or be deprived of
• (obsolete) to loose
• be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something)
• cause (someone) to fail to gain or retain (something)
• be deprived of (a relative or friend) through their death
• (of a pregnant woman) miscarry (a baby) or suffer the death of (a baby) during childbirth
• be destroyed or killed, especially as a result of an accident or military action
• decrease in (body weight); undergo a reduction of (a specified amount of weight)
• (of a watch or clock) become slow by (a specified amount of time)
• become unable to find (something or someone)
• cease or become unable to follow (the right route)
• evade or shake off (a pursuer)
• get rid of (an undesirable person or thing)
• cause (someone) to be unable to follow an argument or explanation
• be or become deeply absorbed in (something)
• fail to win (a game or contest)
• cause (someone) to fail to win (a game or contest)
• earn less (money) than one is spending or has spent
• waste or fail to take advantage of (time or an opportunity)
• part with
• 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.
• fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
• suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
• place (something) where one cannot find it again
• miss from one\'s possessions; lose sight of
• allow to go out of sight
• fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
• fail to get or obtain
• retreat
• fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
• be set at a disadvantage
• become unable to control one's temper or emotions
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to come to be without and be unable to find

Words related to LOSE

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Words that contain LOSE

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How to use LOSE in a sentence

• Perhaps I can help them in the search for Jack, and you know there is no time to lose.
• But, if the era of the art be examined by the test of history, it will lose much of its fancied antiquity.
• They build winter camps at the river mouths, so that in the spring they need lose less time and can hurry inland after their retreating prey.
• So now, in a situation threatening to become every moment more scaly, I did not lose my head.
• He said he deplored war, and had a prejudice against the Japanese, and hoped they would lose, and praised the Russians as brave and pious.
• Sir Nathaniel stopped and looked around, as though to lose nothing of the effect.
• Hand in hand we went, lest in that blackness of darkness we should lose one another and never come together again.
• How could I possibly have managed to lose nearly ten thousand men? It seemed incredible, and I realized then that I alone could have accomplished such a feat.
• For I would not willingly lose him, though he should be unjust to me thrice, instead of this once throughout our intercourse.
• When I lose my temper I lose my head and behave like a lunatic.
• The boat sails to a distance of about 90 miles off the land and run back before the prevailing wind, until they are about nine miles from the shore or until they lose the fish.
• The first person to put into print the story of the falling apple was Voltaire, whose sketch of Newton is a little classic which the world could ill afford to lose.
• It does not, like intelligence, seem to grow and decay, to gain and to lose.
• Wherever lines of railway are constructed, they lose whatever importance they may have held in this respect previously.
• Not to lose such precious time, they passed, in a tumultuous manner, some extraordinary resolutions.
• She knew that should the Germans emerge from the war victorious she had all to lose and nothing to gain.
• Even if you had his favorable attention and were to try to go too much into the reasons for things, you would probably lose it.
• If we allow any sign or word of astonishment to escape us, no matter what they do, they will consider us beaten and we shall lose all.
• If he can lose self-consciousness, and receive the full inspiration of her presence, he will soon be at his ease, if not graceful.
• It has its shadows as well as its lights, but we would not lose one of them, for fear of destroying the harmony of the whole.
• I am traveling towards Madrid, but I never lose sight of London.
• Oh, my heart will ever grieve When my Fatherland I leave, For in foreign tongues repeating Words of strangers, I lose cheer.
• Of course it would be terribly hard for me to lose my footing and fall, and I feel that I should not rise again.
• Billy understood it to mean that he might lose his companion and took a grip.
• James Harlowe think that, while he is grasping at hundreds, he will, most probably, lose thousands, if he be my survivor.
• I am thy foe! one who hath sworn to take thy life, or lose his own.
• These two remarkable works lose none of their significance if we consider the time at which they were composed.
• And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, amen I say to you he shall not lose his reward.

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