Definition von lose im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- Of a clock, to run slower than expected
It's already 5:30? My watch must have lost a few minutes.
- To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons
She lost her position when the company was taken over.
- To fail to be the winner
Did you win this time? - No, I lost again.
- To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate
When we get into the building, please lose the hat.
- To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident
He lost his spleen in a car wreck.
- To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer
Mission control lost the satellite as its signal died down.
- To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc). Often followed by out
We lost the match.
- To shed (weight); to reduce
I’ve lost five pounds this week.
- To have (a relative or friend) die
She lost all her sons in the war.
- {v} to suffer loss, fail, miss, let slip, forfeit, bewilder
- If you lose a contest, a fight, or an argument, you do not succeed because someone does better than you and defeats you. A C Milan lost the Italian Cup Final The government lost the argument over the pace of reform No one likes to be on the losing side
- To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way
- miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!"
- If someone loses it, they become extremely angry or upset. I completely lost it. I went mad, berserk
- suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"
- vi [not to win] kalah 2 vt [to put something somewhere and not know where it is] menghilangkan (hilang)
- fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"
- If you lose something, you do not know where it is, for example because you have forgotten where you put it. I lost my keys I had to go back for my checkup; they'd lost my X-rays
- retreat
- If you lose blood or fluid from your body, it leaves your body so that you have less of it. During fever a large quantity of fluid is lost in perspiration
- be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation"
- 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 cause to part with; to deprive of
- If a business loses money, it earns less money than it spends, and is therefore in debt. His shops stand to lose millions of pounds
- To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge
- If you lose a close relative or friend, they die. My Grandma lost her brother in the war
- 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
- misplace or fail, as in: I don't care if I win or lose, I just enjoy playing the game
- If you lose a part of your body, it is cut off in an operation or in an accident. He lost a foot when he was struck by a train
- as the result of any kind of contest
- If you lose weight, you become less heavy, and usually look thinner. I have lost a lot of weight Martha was able to lose 25 pounds
- If someone loses their life, they die. the ferry disaster in 1987, in which 192 people lost their lives Hundreds of lives were lost in fighting
- allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"
- to lose your balance: see balance to lose the battle but win the war: see battle to lose contact: see contact to lose your cool: see cool to lose face: see face to lose your grip: see grip to lose your head: see head to lose heart: see heart to lose your mind: see mind to lose your nerve: see nerve to lose the plot: see plot to lose sight of: see sight to lose your temper: see temper to lose touch: see touch to lose track of: see track
- If someone or something loses heat, their temperature becomes lower. Babies lose heat much faster than adults
- To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp
- fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war" suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her" allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light" miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!" fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat" fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad" fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year
- If you lose yourself in something or if you are lost in it, you give a lot of attention to it and do not think about anything else. Michael held on to her arm, losing himself in the music He was lost in the contemplation of the landscape. = absorb
- To cause (something) to cease to be in ones possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons
- 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
- place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses"
- To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc
- If you lose an opportunity, you do not take advantage of it. If you don't do it soon you're going to lose the opportunity They did not lose the opportunity to say what they thought of events. a lost opportunity
- If you lose an ability, you stop having that ability because of something such as an accident. They lost their ability to hear He had lost the use of his legs
- Term used by parent when a child loses a portion of their paycheck for not doing what was to be done cheerfully and happily Term that is used when a child loses money from paycheck for each individual item not done according to parent's expectations
- To prevent from gaining or obtaining
- If you lose time, something slows you down so that you do not make as much progress as you hoped. They claim that police lost valuable time in the early part of the investigation Six hours were lost in all
- [MIT] vi 1 To fail A program loses when it encounters an exceptional condition or fails to work in the expected manner 2 To be exceptionally unesthetic or crocky 3 Of people, to be obnoxious or unusually stupid (as opposed to ignorant) See also {deserves to lose} 4 n Refers to something that is {losing}, especially in the phrases "That's a lose!" and "What a lose!"
- fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"
- {f} fail to keep possession of; mislay, misplace; be deprived of; be defeated, fail; be bereaved; suffer a loss; waste; miss; go in the wrong direction; become less effective or valuable, diminish
- If something loses you a contest or loses you something that you had, it causes you to fail or to no longer have what you had. My own stupidity lost me the match His economic mismanagement has lost him the support of the general public. see also lost
- If things are lost, they are destroyed in a disaster. the famous Nankin pottery that was lost in a shipwreck off the coast of China
- To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd
- fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year
- to be less or have less -- "How many kilograms did Bambee lose " (183)
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"
- 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
- You say that you lose something when you no longer have it because it has been taken away from you or destroyed. I lost my job when the company moved to another state She was terrified they'd lose their home
- If someone loses a quality, characteristic, attitude, or belief, they no longer have it. He lost all sense of reason He had lost his desire to live
- If you lose your way, you become lost when you are trying to go somewhere. The men lost their way in a sandstorm
- fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war"
- lose count
- to forget the number of times that something has happened
I have lost count of the number of girls I have kissed.
- lose face
- To lose the respect of others, to be humiliated or experience public disgrace
- lose heart
- to despair, experience reduced morale
- lose it
- To be explosively angry; to lose one's temper
When my dad found out I had failed the exams, he just lost it.
- lose it
- To lose control of a situation
- lose one's cool
- To become upset or disconcerted; to lose one's temper
When things don't go your way, no matter how trivial, how do you react? Do you lose your cool and explode?.
- lose one's head
- To behave irrationally or to lose one's self-control, especially in a distressing situation
He never lost his head in a crisis, Mr. Mandela wrote of his comrade.
- lose one's lunch
- Vomit, throw up
- lose one's marbles
- To go crazy
Jimi's obsession with his guitar garnered him a nickname around Clarksville: Marbles. He was so named because people thought he had lost his marbles and was crazy as a result of his excessive practicing.
- lose one's mind
- To become mad, insane
- lose one's rag
- To become angry
Come on, everyone loses their rag occasionally. It can’t be that bad. ’.
- lose one's shirt
- To lose all of one's money; to go broke; to undergo financial ruin or disaster
Since nearly losing his shirt in a business deal a few years back, he investigates new opportunities more cautiously.
- lose one's shit
- To lose one's temper
- lose one's shit
- To have a sudden burst of emotion, regardless of the type of feeling
I watched Lady Gaga's Telephone video last night, and I lost my shit..
- lose one's temper
- to be explosively angry. To get very cross
When my dad found out I had failed the exams, he completely lost his temper.
- lose one's touch
- To lose one's special mastery of or knack for a particular skill or activity
They had more than 45 years in the business, but it was clear they never lost their touch.
- lose one's virginity
- To have sexual intercourse for the first time
- lose oneself in
- to be deeply occupied, focused or absorbed in someone or something
Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies.
- lose the number of one's mess
- to die, to perish
Shore folk think sailors are heartless, and that when a poor chap is lost overboard, they only say that So-and-so has lost the number of his mess! and, after having an auction over his kit in the fo'c's'le, then dismiss him from their memory! — J.C. Hutcheson, Fritz and Eric, 1880.
- lose the plot
- To cease to be behaving in a predictable and/or rational manner
- lose the plot
- To have one's results decline severely in quality or suddenly fall below an acceptable standard, especially when compared to past excellence
- lose touch
- To cease to be familiar with someone or something or to cease to communicate or have contact
Suddenly, friends found me again that I had lost touch with years ago.
- lose track
- To forget one's train of thought or temporarily misplace an item or its place in a sequence
With all that had happened, she had lost track of the time.
- lose weight
- to become less heavy
I'll need to lose weight if I want to fit into my old jeans.
- lose one's train of thought
- (Ev ile ilgili) Forget what one was talking or thinking about
- lose it
- To lose control; blow up.To become deranged or mentally disturbed.To become less capable or proficient; decline
- lose one's cool
- (deyim) Fail to maintain a calm and controlled attitude
- lose one's grip
- Become unable to understand or control one's situation
- lose one's religion
- (deyim) Lose one's temper
- lose out
- To fail to achieve or receive an expected gain
- lose out on
- To miss (an opportunity, for example)
- lose sleep over
- (deyim) Worry about someone or something a lot, sometimes when one should be sleeping. (Often used with any and the negative.)
1. Yes, Kelly is in a little bit of trouble, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over her.
2. Don't lose any sleep over the matter. I refuse to lose sleep about it.
- lose temper
- Become impatient, become irritated
- lose the plot
- to become crazy
- lose the plot
- Behave strangely or foolishly: "I can't believe Stuart did that - he must be losing the plot."
- lose time
- To operate too slowly. Used of a timepiece.To delay advancement
- lose-lose
- Presenting two options both of which put one at a disadvantage: "a lose-lose proposition"
- lose-lose situation
- A no-win situation or less commonly a "lose-lose" situation, is one where a person has choices, but no choice leads to success. If an executioner offers the condemned the choice of dying by being hanged, shot, or poisoned, since all choices lead to death, the condemned is in a no-win situation. Simply put, this bleak situation is one where no matter what choice one makes, the result from choosing either one will be the same: nobody wins at all
- losing
- That loses or lose, or has or have lost
Being on the losing team is disappointing.
- losing
- Present participle of lose
- lost
- Unable to find one's way; unavailable, with location unknown
Deep beneath the ocean, the Titanic was lost to the world.
- lost
- Simple past tense and past participle of lose
- lost
- {a} no longer perceptible, gone, perished
- Lost
- lore
- losable
- Such as can be lost
- lose face
- enter into disrepute, suffer embarrassment or disgrace
- lose ground
- go backward; lose control, lose advantage
- lose it
- (Slang) lose control; lose virginity
- lose it
- lose control of one's emotions; "When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely"; "When her baby died, she snapped"
- lose out
- {f} fail; lose, fail to win in a competition; be disadvantaged
- lose out
- If you lose out, you suffer a loss or disadvantage because you have not succeeded in what you were doing. We both lost out Laura lost out to Tom Women have lost out in this new pay flexibility Egypt has lost out on revenues from the Suez Canal. = miss out
- lose touch
- lose the sense of; lose contact with
- lose weight
- take off weight
- loses
- Present participle of to lose; misplaces
- losing
- Causing or incurring loss; as, a losing game or business
- losing
- Given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening
- losing
- {i} misplacing
- losing
- The action of the verb to lose
- lost
- spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon"
- lost
- the Force of the mystical, magical, and forgotten The source of faith and magic, and the governing Force for esoteric occult knowledges Governed by Saturn, the Mystic
- lost
- people who are destined to die soon; "the agony of the doomed was in his voice"
- lost
- incapable of being recovered or regained; "his lost honor
- lost
- not gained or won; "a lost battle"; "a lost prize"
- lost
- Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London
- lost
- You use lost to refer to a period or state of affairs that existed in the past and no longer exists. He seemed to pine for his lost youth the relics of a lost civilisation
- lost
- Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit
- lost
- unable to function; without help
- lost
- Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep
- lost
- Lost is the past tense and past participle of lose
- lost
- adj [{of objects}] hilang 2 adj [{of persons}] tersesat (sesat)
- lost
- If something is lost, it is not used properly and is considered wasted. Fox is not bitter about the lost opportunity to compete in the Games The advantage is lost
- lost
- (adj ) oSanin, ohshahnihn
- lost
- A person who is presumed to have wandered away and has become lost and unable to return to a known location
- lost
- If you feel lost, you feel very uncomfortable because you are in an unfamiliar situation. Of the funeral he remembered only the cold, the waiting, and feeling very lost I feel lost and lonely in a strange town alone
- lost
- not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the din"
- lost
- deeply absorbed in thought; "as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown"
- lost
- Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope; as, a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul
- lost
- Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor
- lost
- Dead "He got lost" means he ain't coming back without a resurrection
- lost
- no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities"
- lost
- If something is lost, or gets lost, you cannot find it, for example because you have forgotten where you put it. a lost book My paper got lost He was scrabbling for his pen, which had got lost somewhere under the sheets of paper
- lost
- Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd
- lost
- nIII: talk
- lost
- having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity; "I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway"; "the anesthetic left her completely disoriented"
- lost
- If you are lost or if you get lost, you do not know where you are or are unable to find your way. Barely had I set foot in the street when I realised I was lost I took a wrong turn and we got lost in the mountains
- lost
- If advice or a comment is lost on someone, they do not understand it or they pay no attention to it. The meaning of that was lost on me. the past tense and past participle of lose
- lost
- The item has been lost
- lost
- Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor
- lost
- If you describe something as lost, you mean that you no longer have it or it no longer exists. a lost job or promotion The sense of community is lost The riots will also mean lost income for Los Angeles County
- lost
- Dead "He got lost," means he ain't coming back without a resurrection
- lost
- {s} no longer in the possession of, misplaced; irrecoverable; unable to find the right way to go; defeated; destroyed; involved, immersed (in one's thoughts, etc.)
- lost
- incapable of being recovered or regained; "his lost honor"
- lost
- When you have no clue how to play the lanes
- lost
- perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school"
- lost
- past of lose
- lost
- Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in thought
- lost
- not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the din" no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities" spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon" not gained or won; "a lost battle"; "a lost prize" incapable of being recovered or regained; "his lost honor
- lost
- If you describe a person or group of people as lost, you think that they do not have a clear idea of what they want to do or achieve. They are a lost generation in search of an identity
- lost
- Losing vision and body awareness in a move
- lost
- no longer known; irretrievable; "a forgotten art"; "a lost art"; "lost civilizations"