LOSE
Scrabble letter values: L1O1S1E1 = 4
Definition
- verb fail to keep or to maintain.
- verb fail to win.
- verb suffer the loss of a person through death or removal.
- verb miss from one's possessions.
- verb allow to go out of sight or mind.
- verb fail to make money in a business. — synonyms: turn_a_loss
- verb fail to get or obtain.
- verb fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind. — synonyms: miss
- verb withdraw, as from reality.
- verb be set at a disadvantage. — synonyms: suffer
Examples
- “cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense”
- “She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat”
- “We lost the battle but we won the war”