Loss is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LOSS in dictionary:

VERB:
• The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.
• The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing.
• That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable.
• The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel.
• Failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle.
• Failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time.
• Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property.
• Destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person; also, the sum paid or payable therefor; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars.
NOUN:
• the act of one that loses
• the fact or process of losing something or someone
• an amount of money lost by a business or organization
• the feeling of grief after losing someone or something of value
• a person who or thing that is badly missed when lost
• something that is lost
• gradual decline in amount or activity
• the act of losing someone or something
• the disadvantage that results from losing something
• the experience of losing a loved one
• the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
• military personnel lost by death or capture
• euphemistic expressions for death
• losing

Words related to LOSS

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Words that contain LOSS

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How to use LOSS in a sentence

• For a time, I was at a loss to account for their presence.
• This naturally involved great material loss and, what was still worse, a huge toll of innocent human life.
• They who were less privileged had fed themselves with pocketed sandwiches, not caring to risk the loss of their seats.
• He would willingly have saved the life of the brave Count of Fuentes, but found him lying amidst thousands of the dead whose loss is still felt by Spain.
• Besides the loss the troops met with in action by Colo.
• Phillip, in short, found himself by degrees involved in a whirl of festivities, and was never at a loss where to go for amusement when he could obtain leave to seek relaxation.
• Instead of setting my hand to do that, I simply led you to a point from which, with least loss of time, I thought you could cross into Asia.
• The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss.
• The loss of the enemy in Munmutpore was never ascertained.
• Last season the plant operated at a loss in the hands of hired men.
• A speculation which I had gone in for there had caused me heavy loss and much anxiety.
• Desmond was shocked to see the change wrought on his friend by the loss of his wife and daughter.
• At dawn the hill and the camp were in our possession, for the enemy, after a loss of 9 killed and wounded, thought it best to resist no longer.
• CHAPTER XII PROFIT AND LOSS The trifles of our daily life, The common things scarce worth recall, Whereof no visible trace remains, These are the main springs after all.
• In the slaughter which followed Sedgwick was wounded and his command was saved from annihilation with the loss of two thousand men.
• When the visitor is about to depart, or sometimes not until long after his departure, he discovers his loss.
• Soon after the fight the squadron appeared off the port, where its officers, learning of the loss of the assailants, squared their yards and sailed away for France.
• I believe in no instance was there any loss to the Government, or to the fund in his charge.
• In England almost alone, after the loss of her great possessions across the Atlantic Ocean, the fabric of the State stood fast and firm.
• To this pecuniary loss may be added the injury sustained by the public in consequence of the destruction of timber and the careless and wasteful manner of working the mines.
• The scheme to which he reverted in the first bitter moments of his loss could have originated in no brain less unscrupulous than his own.
• The loss of Milouna Pass was a severe blow to Greece, but not half so bad as the fall of Larissa, which from all accounts appears to have been a very disastrous affair.
• There may have been a loss, but that is not yet proved.
• If twenty should be destroyed, there would be no gain, but an actual loss to the amount of the expenses of the concern.

Similar words containing LOS without suffix s

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