Losing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LOSING in dictionary:

VERB:
• 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)
• Causing or incurring loss; as, a losing game or business.
• become unable to control one's temper or emotions
NOUN:
• the act of losing
ADJECTIVE:
• tending to suffer loss
• unprofitable; failing
• Given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to come to be without and be unable to find
• a loss

Words related to LOSING

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Words that contain LOSING

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How to use LOSING in a sentence

• The great artist, who held thousands spellbound and breathless, could not submit easily to losing in such a way the only friendship that had ever meant much to her.
• Friends feared that Lucy was losing her mind and might do some desperate deed, but she did not.
• And losing his own self-respect would have been the worst thing that could have happened to him.
• I feel quite convinced that but for Kromitzki and the fear of losing Aniela, I should not feel either anxieties or trouble.
• It means that almost at once those of us who persist in our desire to know are in danger of losing our self-respect.
• Instead of losing time by climbing up over the bank, he splashed through the water at two places where the little stream was wide and shallow.
• After losing thirty thousand men beneath its walls, he was compelled, in the depth of winter, to raise the siege and retreat.
• Mainland it seemed to us, stretching across the south, losing itself in the eastern haze.
• He could send no money to the Treasury, and was in danger of losing his place.
• The farmers have suffered severely, many losing all their capital and becoming farm labourers.
• I should hope there would be no danger of losing the species of white rice, by a confusion with the other.
• Murray was defeated, losing about one-third of his army on the field.
• The natives here, as may be expected, are pretty well Mexicanised, and losing their customs, religion, and language.
• When at last she moved slightly and was on the point of losing her balance, she awoke so quickly that she saved herself just in the nick of time.
• At first, with great swiftness, but gradually losing speed, we rose to an immense height straight from the ground.
• William was so uneasy at losing this opportunity, that he pressed us earnestly to go up to Japan to find out these men.
• At last he could not speak to the boy without losing his temper, and so for days at a time he would not speak to him at all.
• She seems to be losing something of her medical fervor, and probably this is taking its place.
• You suppressed it, because it exposed those whose acts were losing the Indian Country.
• At last the king, seeing that the enemy were losing heart, again ordered the knights to mount, and these dashing among the enemy, completed their defeat.
• I had gone into a losing speculation and was in pressing need of money.
• He was losing enough and keeping enough and getting enough and having enough and trying enough and expecting enough to be that one being that one.
• I saw where it was losing and what the remedies were, and then Sandford put me in charge.
• Our courses in physics, chemistry, and hygiene can be made thoroughly practical without losing any of their scientific value.
• The United States is in danger of losing the race for commercial supremacy.
• The grave possibility of the salt losing its savour.

Similar words containing LOS without suffix ing

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