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Варианты (v2)
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lose [luːz] гл lost, lost
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потерять, терять, проигрывать, утрачивать, упускать, утратить, лишиться, упустить, утерять, растерять
(miss, forfeit, squander)
- lose consciousness – потерять сознание
- lose valuable time – терять драгоценного времени
- lose battles – проигрывать сражения
- lose sight – упускать из виду
- lost property – утраченное имущество
- lose a leg – лишиться ноги
- lost profit – упущенная выгода
- lost luggage – утерянный багаж
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проиграть
(play)
- lost war – проигранная война
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потеряться, заблудиться, затеряться, пропадать, сбиться, растеряться
(disappear, stray, get off, confuse)
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сбросить, похудеть
(drop, lose weight)
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лишаться
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lose [luːz]
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lose
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| verb | ||
| терять | lose, waste, shed, drop, spend, mislay | |
| проигрывать | lose, concede, game away, drop, lose oneself, come off a loser | |
| упускать | miss, lose, neglect, omit, leave out, let go | |
| утрачивать | lose | |
| лишаться | lose, forfeit | |
| забывать | forget, lose sight of, lose, leave behind, sink | |
| заблудиться | astray, stray, go astray, lose, wander, lose oneself | |
| пропасть | lose | |
| отставать | fall behind, lag behind, lag, lose, slow, drop behind | |
| лишать | deprive, lose, bereave, rob, strip, divest | |
| стоить | cost, be worth, be, lose, count for, command | |
| исчезать | disappear, pass away, vanish, go, lose, die | |
| пропускать | miss, skip, pass, overlook, miss out, lose | |
| погибнуть | fall, lose | |
| обронить | drop, lose | |
| опаздывать | be late, delay, lose, linger | |
| вызывать потерю | lose | |
| не воспользоваться | lose, throwaway | |
| не разглядеть | lose | |
| продуваться | lose | |
| недослышать | lose | |
| не существовать больше | lose |
Предложения со словом «lose»
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So it kind of feels like the exporters win and the importers lose. |
Поэтому возникает ощущение, что экспортёры выигрывают, а импортёры проигрывают. |
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And it feels like the manufacturing countries win and the importing countries lose. |
Поэтому возникает ощущение, что страны — производители выигрывают, а страны — импортёры проигрывают. |
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Sometimes I get so in the zone that I lose all sense of time and place. |
Иногда я в таком потоке, что теряю чувство времени и места. |
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They have also said that AI will create new jobs, so those who lose their jobs will find a new one. |
Ещё они говорят, что ИИ создаст новые рабочие места, поэтому те, кто потерял работу, найдут новую. |
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But the real question is: How many of those who may lose their jobs to AI will be able to land a new one, especially when AI is smart enough to learn better than most of us? |
Но главный вопрос в следующем: сколько человек, потерявших работу из — за ИИ, смогут найти новую, особенно когда ИИ поумнеет так, что станет учиться лучше, чем большинство из нас? |
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And slowly I began to lose myself, like I was being washed away. |
Понемногу я начала терять себя, меня словно стирало из мира. |
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The truth is that even as we lose so many corals, even as we go through this massive coral die-off, some reefs will survive. |
Дело в том, что хоть мы и теряем так много кораллов и являемся свидетелями массивного вымирания кораллов, некоторые рифы выживут. |
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And this means that they lose very little heat to space themselves. |
И это значит, что они сами отдают в космос очень мало тепла. |
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Now, just think of everything we lose when architects stop using the full range of available materials. |
Только подумайте обо всём, что мы теряем, когда архитекторы перестают использовать всё многообразие материалов. |
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By the time I would graduate college, I would lose two more beloved family members to chronic disease: my aunt Diane, dead at 55, my aunt Tricia, dead at 63. |
На момент окончания колледжа я потеряла ещё двух любимых людей, умерших от хронических заболеваний: мою тётю Диану, которая умерла в 55 лет, и тётю Тришу, которой было 63. |
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I was working as an internist and Paul was finishing his training as a neurosurgeon when he started to lose weight. |
Я работала терапевтом, а Пол заканчивал обучение на нейрохирурга в тот момент, когда начал терять вес. |
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That doesn’t mean he wanted to lose. |
Это не значит, что он хотел проиграть. |
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But then my chemo was scheduled to begin and that terrified me because I knew that I was going to lose every single hair on my body because of the kind of chemo that I was going to have. |
Но когда был назначен курс химиотерапии, я пришла в ужас, так как понимала, что на моем теле не останется ни одного волоска, потому что тот курс химиотерапии не оставлял другого выбора. |
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It’s easy to lose sight of the need for quality of life, not just quantity of life. |
Легко потерять качество жизни, когда пытаешься продлить её любыми средствами. |
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If kids lose five months of learning every single year, that’s half of their education. |
Если дети теряют пять месяцев обучения каждый год, то это половина их образования. |
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We gain and lose synapses all the time, through a process called neural plasticity. |
Мы всё время создаём и разрушаем синапсы в ходе процесса, называемого нейропластичностью. |
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You won’t lose your emotional memory. |
Эмоциональная память не теряется. |
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Listen, no athlete, no champion likes to lose. |
Послушай, никто из спортсменов, тем более чемпионов, не любит проигрывать. |
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I hate to lose, but I think losing has brought me here today. |
Ненавижу проигрывать, но думаю, именно поражения привели меня сегодня сюда. |
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Some of them are extremely painful, but I wouldn’t take any of them away, because every time I lose, it takes a really long time for me to lose again because I learn so much from it. |
Некоторые из них были чрезвычайно болезненными, но я не стану сбрасывать их со счетов, потому что за каждым моим проигрышем следовала череда побед, потому что я многому на них училась. |
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And I encourage everyone that I talk to — I’m like, listen, if you lose or if something happens — not in sports — in business or in school — learn from it. |
И я призываю всех, с кем сталкиваюсь: если ты проиграешь или если что — то произойдёт — не в спорте, а на работе или в школе, — вынеси из этого урок. |
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You feel dizzy, you get drunk, you lose your balance, and you will end up hurting yourself and those around you, if you don’t connect your power with humility and tenderness. |
Он тебе ударит в голову, ты опьянеешь, потеряешь равновесие и причинишь боль и себе, и другим, если не добавить к этому смирения и нежности. |
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So let’s lose the fear and anxiety of all the big financial words and all that other nonsense that you’ve been out there hearing. |
Поэтому давайте отбросим страх и волнение перед сложными финансовыми терминами и весь тот нонсенс, который вы слышали и слышите. |
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When we face a chronic serious illness, whether it’s rheumatoid arthritis or lupus or cancer or diabetes, or cirrhosis, we lose control. |
Когда мы сталкиваемся с серьёзным хроническим заболеванием — будь то ревматоидный артрит, волчанка, рак, диабет, цирроз печени — мы теряем контроль. |
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All of us at some point in our lives will face a chronic serious illness that causes us to lose control. |
Все мы в какой — то момент жизни столкнёмся с серьёзной хронической болезнью, из — за которой теряешь контроль. |
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Our bodies will betray us, and in that process, we’ll lose control. |
Наши тела предадут нас, тогда мы и потеряем контроль. |
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But what scares them more than anything else is this possibility that at some point, tomorrow or a month from now, they’re going to lose control of their health, of their lives, of their healthcare, and they’re going to become dependent on others, and that’s terrifying. |
Но больше всего их пугает вероятность того, что в один момент — будь то завтра или через месяц — они потеряют контроль над своим здоровьем, над своей жизнью, над медицинским уходом и станут зависимыми от других, и это ужасает. |
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There will be those who’ll say that if we simplify spelling we’ll lose etymology. |
Появятся те, кто скажет, что если мы упростим правописание, мы потеряем этимологию. |
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Maybe I’m just eternally optimistic, but I hope I never lose this hope, and I invite you to take this same attitude when people share their outer beliefs with you. |
Может, я неисправимая оптимистка, но верю, что эта надежда во мне не угаснет, и призываю вас занять такую же позицию по отношению к тем, кто делится с вами внешней правдой. |
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I still consider that every group I join might be right, and I hope I never lose that hope. |
Каждый раз вступая в такую группу, я верю, что они могут быть правы, и хочу, чтобы эта надежда не угасала. |
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Let’s all never lose that hope, because searching for what’s out there helps us understand what’s in here. |
Давайте все на это надеяться, потому что исследование потустороннего помогает понять, что у нас тут, в душé. |
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And if that wasn’t bad enough, you would lose 40 percent of your claim in just fees — legal fees, enforcement fees, court fees. |
Это не самое плохое, что случается, вы можете потерять 40 процентов от суммы иска только в сборах: легальные сборы, исполнительные сборы, судебные пошлины. |
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It’s a very difficult problem, because in a world where people lose their ability to be employed, the only thing they are going to get is this basic income. |
Это очень сложный вопрос, потому что в мире, где люди теряют возможность получить работу, им только и остаётся, что эта самая продовольственная корзина. |
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The main reason we need it is because many of these issues are lose-lose situations. |
Главная же в нём необходимость — это безвыигрышность многих из подобных решений. |
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But when you have a lose-lose situation like with climate change, it’s much more difficult without some overarching authority, real authority. |
Но когда каждый оказывается в проигрыше, как в ситуации с климатом, договориться намного сложнее без какого — то реального авторитета сверху. |
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At a point in time we saw the written word become pervasive, people thought we would lose our ability to memorize. |
В какой — то момент мы увидели, что распространилась письменность, и подумали, что потеряем способность к запоминанию. |
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So now the choice is: Should I stay here in this horrible place, away from my family and my dependents, almost guaranteed to lose my job, and then fight the charges? |
Поэтому выбор таков: оставаться в этом ужасном месте, далеко от семьи, и зависящих от меня людей, почти гарантированно потерять работу и потом бороться с расходами . |
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We need to live up to our own ideals, and we need to recognize when what we’re doing could potentially harm society, where we lose track of journalism as a public service. |
Мы должны следовать нашим идеалам и осознавать, когда то, что мы делаем, может навредить обществу, когда журналистика перестаёт служить на благо обществу. |
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Would my daughter’s bright, happy eyes lose their shine? |
Потеряли бы светлые счастливые глаза моей дочери этот блеск? |
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When their own families betray them, they look to the rest of us, and when we don’t understand, we lose them. |
Когда их предают их собственные семьи, молодые люди ищут понимания у нас, но когда и мы их не понимаем, они терпят крах. |
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The cortisol shoots up, the limbic system gets fired, we lose productivity at work. |
Повышается уровень кортизола, страдает лимбическая система, снижается продуктивность в работе. |
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But what was it about this particular bump that caused thousands of physicists to collectively lose their cool? |
Но что же в этой маленькой неровности заставило тысячи физиков потерять самообладание? |
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Or we lose that raise or that promotion or that deal. |
Мы не получаем надбавку, повышение, или проигрываем сделку. |
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It’s very important to mention this, because I did lose a lot of sleep, and I worked hard, and so did the people with me. |
Очень важно это упомянуть, потому что я постоянно не высыпалась и работала очень много, как и вся моя команда. |
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We may even blame fat people themselves for the discrimination they face because, after all, if we don’t like it, we should just lose weight. |
Мы можем даже обвинять в дискриминации толстых людей их самих, ведь, в конце концов, если им не нравится это, пусть просто похудеют. |
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Nothing to Lose is a work made in collaboration with performers of size who drew from their lived experiences to create a work as varied and authentic as we all are. |
Нечего терять создано при сотрудничестве актёров, использовавших свой жизненный опыт, чтобы создать произведение с теми же разнообразием и достоверностью, что есть в нас. |
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But despite the skepticism, Nothing to Lose became a sellout hit of Sydney Festival. |
Но, несмотря на скептицизм, Нечего терять стало хитом по продажам на фестивале в Сиднее. |
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We’re going to lose our health, people we love. |
Мы потеряем здоровье, людей, которых мы любим. |
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In the face of relentless competition, it may well be that you will have to take the painful decision to downsize the organization, just as you may have to lose some weight in order to run a marathon. |
Вполне возможно, что в условиях беспощадной конкуренции придётся принять болезненное решение о сокращении кадров — всё равно что сбросить вес перед марафоном. |
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Henry had never seen Baron Royce lose his composure. |
Генри впервые видел, что барону Ройсу изменила выдержка. |
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Because the satnav would lose its temper for no reason. |
Благодаря спутниковой навигации, которая по необъяснимой причине потеряет самообладание. |
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I also feaR that I will lose control over myself. |
Еще я боюсь, что потеряю контроль над собой. |
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Words themselves lose their meanings and become empty sounds. |
Сами слова теряют свои значения и превращаются в пустые звуки. |
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The world will finally lose faith in its heretic hero! |
Мир наконец потеряет веру в своего героя — еретика! |
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YOU CAN LOSE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE IN ONE SECOND |
ТЫ МОЖЕШЬ ПОТЕРЯТЬ ВСЁ ЧТО ИМЕЛ В ОДНО МГНОВЕНИЕ |
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Please, don’t lose the boarding pass you are given at the check-in counter, otherwise you won’t be permitted in the plane. |
Пожалуйста, не потеряйте посадочный талон, который выдают у стойки, иначе вас не пустят в самолет. |
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I suppose nervous at first but then you settle in and within a couple of minutes and before you know it you lose any kind of awareness of kind of any external factors or anything like that. |
Я полагаю, в начале нервничал, но затем вы привыкаете и в течение нескольких минут, прежде чем вы поймете это, вы теряете всякую связь с какими — либо внешними факторами или чем — либо подобным. |
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And I cannot afford to lose anymore of my crops. |
Я не могу позволить себе и дальше терять урожай. |
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If you do something wrong you may lose a friend, that’s why always think how to keep friendship. |
Если вы поступаете неправильно , вы можете потерять друга , вот почему всегда думайте , как сохранить дружбу. |
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Many ships lose some of the oil in the water and the water becomes dirty. |
Из — за утечки нефти на многих кораблях происходит загрязнение воды. |
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loseverb
Synonyms:
leave behind, mislayAntonyms:
discover, procure, find, come across, acquire, gain, snag, pick up, get -
loseverb
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win -
loseverb
Synonyms:
drop, shedAntonyms:
gain, put on -
loseverb
Antonyms:
win, come, first -
loseverb
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find -
loseverb
To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
When we get into the building, please lose the hat.
Synonyms:
ditch, get rid of, jettison, drop, dumpAntonyms:
pick up
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lose
Synonyms:
abandon, fail, forfeit, give up, let go, missAntonyms:
accomplish, achieve, acquire, arrive at, attain, compass, earn, gain, get, grasp, master, obtain, procure, reach, secure, win
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lose
Synonyms:
miss, drop, mislay, forfeitAntonyms:
keep, retain, find, recover, locate, earn, guard, treasure, economize, utilize, preserve, abandon, discard, reject
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loseverb
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»
Synonyms:
fall back, miss, mislay, recede, suffer, misplace, fall behind, drop off, turn a lossAntonyms:
acquire, find, regain, turn a profit, win, profit, gain, break even, hold on, keep -
loseverb
fail to win
«We lost the battle but we won the war»
Synonyms:
fall back, miss, mislay, recede, suffer, misplace, fall behind, drop off, turn a lossAntonyms:
hold on, profit, find, turn a profit, acquire, gain, regain, win, keep, break even -
loseverb
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»
Synonyms:
fall back, miss, mislay, recede, suffer, misplace, fall behind, drop off, turn a lossAntonyms:
keep, win, acquire, turn a profit, break even, find, profit, regain, hold on, gain -
misplace, mislay, loseverb
place (something) where one cannot find it again
«I misplaced my eyeglasses»
Synonyms:
fall back, lose, miss, mislay, recede, suffer, misplace, fall behind, drop off, turn a lossAntonyms:
hold on, find, regain, break even, win, acquire, gain, keep, turn a profit, profit -
loseverb
miss from one’s possessions; lose sight of
«I’ve lost my glasses again!»
Synonyms:
fall back, miss, mislay, recede, suffer, misplace, fall behind, drop off, turn a lossAntonyms:
hold on, win, turn a profit, gain, regain, acquire, break even, find, profit, keep -
loseverb
allow to go out of sight
«The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light»
Synonyms:
fall back, miss, mislay, recede, suffer, misplace, fall behind, drop off, turn a lossAntonyms:
turn a profit, win, acquire, break even, find, regain, keep, hold on, gain, profit -
lose, turn a lossverb
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»
Synonyms:
fall back, lose, miss, mislay, recede, suffer, misplace, fall behind, drop off, turn a lossAntonyms:
hold on, find, turn a profit, regain, keep, break even, win, profit, acquire, gain -
loseverb
fail to get or obtain
«I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad»
Synonyms:
fall back, miss, mislay, recede, suffer, misplace, fall behind, drop off, turn a lossAntonyms:
hold on, win, break even, profit, keep, gain, find, regain, acquire, turn a profit -
fall back, lose, drop off, fall behind, recedeverb
retreat
Synonyms:
unload, fall asleep, misplace, lose, draw back, mislay, drop off, retire, withdraw, retreat, turn a loss, lapse, fall away, drift off, dope off, relapse, recidivate, fall back, dawdle, pull away, drop away, recur, fall behind, resort, set down, recede, put down, doze off, move back, nod off, regress, drop, suffer, discharge, miss, drowse off, retrogress, lag, pull back, slip, flake outAntonyms:
gain, break even, win, find, hold on, acquire, regain, keep, turn a profit, profit -
miss, loseverb
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»
Synonyms:
miss, mislay, turn a loss, fall behind, misplace, lose, omit, overlook, fall back, lack, overleap, suffer, drop, leave out, neglect, recede, drop off, pretermit, escapeAntonyms:
turn a profit, acquire, break even, gain, regain, win, keep, profit, find, hold on -
suffer, loseverb
be set at a disadvantage
«This author really suffers in translation»
Synonyms:
miss, get, have, put up, mislay, stand, hurt, abide, fall behind, support, misplace, stomach, digest, suffer, fall back, brook, stick out, tolerate, sustain, turn a loss, meet, recede, endure, drop off, bear, ache, loseAntonyms:
break even, hold on, find, win, acquire, turn a profit, regain, gain, profit, keep
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loseverb
Synonyms:
be deprived of, fail to keep, let slip, let slip through the fingers -
loseverb
Synonyms:
forfeit, fail to win, fail to obtain -
loseverb
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waste, squander, misspend, throw away, make no use of -
loseverb
Synonyms:
miss, wander from -
loseverb
Synonyms:
be bereaved of, be deprived of
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List of paraphrases for «lose»:
losing, loses, iose, lost, waste, wasting, miss, eprd, forfeit, loose, loser, loss, iost
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LOSE
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Lose
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Jim Monroe:
The $ 1.6 billion in payments doesn’t really scratch the surface of the losses incurred by producers, we’re going to lose a lot of producers through this situation.
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Adam Wainwright:
The defense behind me tonight was outstanding, those guys played a really good game. Their guy did a good job, too, so it was a good win. Last night was a tough loss. We just couldn’t lose this one. The clubhouse is rocking right now.
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Andre Gide:
Man cannot discover new oceans (high sea) unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.’
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Kent Moore:
Eventually well lose ice in this region as well, if we dont get our use of carbon under control in the next few years, were going to pass a point where we wont be able to sustain these ecosystems, if the ice loss persists through the latter half of this century.
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Devin Howard:
I witnessed a lot of my friends lose their life to the streets and gun violence, some lost their way just due to the fact that they were products out of the environment, and I told myself that if I can make a way, then I’m going to make a way, some way, somehow.
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- خَسِرَ, خسر, فقد, أضاعArabic
- губляць, губіць, траціцьBelarusian
- губя, загубвамBulgarian
- হারাBengali
- perdreCatalan, Valencian
- prohrát, shodit, ztratit, zhubnoutCzech
- tabe, misteDanish
- verlierenGerman
- perdiEsperanto
- fracasar, perderSpanish
- galduBasque
- گم کردن, دور انداختن, از دست دادن, زدودن, باختنPersian
- menettää, hävitäFinnish
- perdreFrench
- caillIrish
- caillScottish Gaelic
- perderGalician
- elveszít, veszítHungarian
- պարտվել, կորցնել, կրվելArmenian
- kalah, hilangIndonesian
- perdarIdo
- perdereItalian
- 失う, なくす, 負ける, 落とすJapanese
- 감소, 상실, 잃다Korean
- دۆڕاندن, ji dest dan, بزر کردنKurdish
- perdo, āmittō, deerro, ero viaLatin
- netèkti, praràstiLithuanian
- zaudētLatvian
- hilangMalay
- verliezen, afvallenDutch
- misteNorwegian
- baa honinééhNavajo, Navaho
- pèrdre, pèrderOccitan
- tracić, przegrywać, gubićPolish
- perder de vista, perder, emagrecerPortuguese
- chinkay, chinkachiyQuechua
- pearder, perder, piarderRomansh
- pierdeRomanian
- похудеть, сбросить, проиграть, худеть, тeрять, проигрывать, пoтeрять, потерятьRussian
- perdiri, perdere, peldere, peldiriSardinian
- schudnúť, prísť o (niečo), stratiť, prehraťSlovak
- izgubitiSlovene
- förlora, tappa, tappa bort, bliva av med, varda av med, mistaSwedish
- కోల్పోవు, ఓడిపోవుTelugu
- kaybetmek, kilo vermek, kilo kaybetmek, zayıflamak, gözden kaçırmakTurkish
- băng hà, mấtVietnamese
- piedeWalloon
- 失去Chinese
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1 be deprived of, displace, drop, fail to keep, forget, mislay, misplace, miss, suffer loss
2 capitulate, default, fail, fall short, forfeit, lose out on (informal) miss, pass up (informal) yield
3 be defeated, be the loser, be worsted, come a cropper (informal) come to grief, get the worst of, lose out, suffer defeat, take a licking (informal)
4 consume, deplete, dissipate, drain, exhaust, expend, lavish, misspend, squander, use up, waste
5 confuse, miss, stray from, wander from
6 lap, leave behind, outdistance, outrun, outstrip, overtake, pass
7 dodge, duck, elude, escape, evade, give someone the slip, shake off, slip away, throw off
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus
lose
( loses 3rd person present) ( losing present participle) ( lost past tense & past participle )
1 verb 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… V n
The government lost the argument over the pace of reform… V n
No one likes to be on the losing side. V-ing
2 verb 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… V n
I had to go back for my checkup; they’d lost my X-rays. V n
3 verb 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… V n
She was terrified they’d lose their home. V n
4 verb If someone loses a quality, characteristic, attitude, or belief, they no longer have it.
He lost all sense of reason… V n
He had lost his desire to live. V n
5 verb If you lose an ability, you stop having that ability because of something such as an accident.
They lost their ability to hear… V n
He had lost the use of his legs. V n
6 verb If someone or something loses heat, their temperature becomes lower.
Babies lose heat much faster than adults… V n
7 verb 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. V n
8 verb If you lose weight, you become less heavy, and usually look thinner.
I have lost a lot of weight… V n
Martha was able to lose 25 pounds. V n
9 verb 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. V n
10 verb If someone loses their life, they die.
…the ferry disaster in 1987, in which 192 people lost their lives… V n
Hundreds of lives were lost in fighting. V n
11 verb If you lose a close relative or friend, they die.
My Grandma lost her brother in the war. V n
12 verb If things are lost, they are destroyed in a disaster.
usu passive
…the famous Nankin pottery that was lost in a shipwreck off the coast of China. be V-ed
13 verb 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… V n
Six hours were lost in all. V n
14 verb 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… V n
They did not lose the opportunity to say what they thought of events. V n to-inf
…a lost opportunity. V-ed
15 verb If you loseyourself in something or if you are lostin it, you give a lot of attention to it and do not think about anything else.
(=absorb)
Michael held on to her arm, losing himself in the music… V pron-refl in n
He was lost in the contemplation of the landscape. be V-ed in n
16 verb If a business loses money, it earns less money than it spends, and is therefore in debt. (BUSINESS)
His shops stand to lose millions of pounds… V n
17 verb 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… V n n
His economic mismanagement has lost him the support of the general public. V n n
19 If someone loses it, they become extremely angry or upset.
INFORMAL
♦
lose it phrase V inflects
I completely lost it. I went mad, berserk.
20 If you lose your way, you become lost when you are trying to go somewhere.
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lose one’s way phrase V inflects
The men lost their way in a sandstorm.
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to lose your balance
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balance
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to lose the battle but win the war
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battle
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to lose contact
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contact
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to lose your cool
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cool
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to lose face
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face
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to lose your grip
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grip
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to lose your head
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head
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to lose heart
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heart
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to lose your mind
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mind
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to lose your nerve
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nerve
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to lose the plot
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plot
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to lose sight of
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sight
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to lose your temper
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temper
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to lose touch
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touch
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to lose track of
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track lose out phrasal verb If you lose out, you suffer a loss or disadvantage because you have not succeeded in what you were doing.
(=miss out)
We both lost out… V P
Laura lost out to Tom… V P to n
Women have lost out in this new pay flexibility… V P in n
Egypt has lost out on revenues from the Suez Canal. V P on n
Translation English Cobuild Collins Dictionary
lose it
exp.
go crazy; get angry; lose self-control
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lose sleep over something |
exp. |
worry about something; be concerned about smth. (to the point of not being able to fall asleep) |
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fall out of touch |
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lose contact |
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to go apeshit |
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to lose one’s temper |
very familiar |
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fly off the handle |
v. |
become very angry ; lose one’s temper |
[Fam.] Ex.: She kept a cool head as he was saying all kinds of mean and horrors about her but when he said her Chinese crested dog was ugly, it was the match in the powder barrel and she just flew off the handle |
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nuke the fridge |
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(about a movie or TV series) reach a point when, due to a unauthentic scene, it loses the appreciation of the public |
made popular by «Indiana Jones» whose hero survives an explosion by hiding in a fridge |
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- drop
- fail
- forget
- give up
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- suffer
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- default
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- disinherit
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- dispossess
- dissipate
- divest
- drain
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- expend
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- lavish
- misplace
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- yield
- be careless
- be impoverished
- be reduced
- become poorer
- fail to keep
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- pass up
- suffer loss
- use up
- decline
- drop
- fall
- miss
- succumb
- yield
- be humbled
- be outdistanced
- be sunk
- be taken to cleaners
- be the loser
- be worsted
- come up short
- drop a bundle
- kiss goodbye
- lose out
- suffer defeat
- take a beating
- take the count
- take the heat
- clear
- dodge
- duck
- elude
- evade
- outrun
- rid
- shake
- stray
- unburden
- give the slip
- leave behind
- shake off
- slip away
- throw off
- wander from
On this page you’ll find 157 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lose, such as: drop, fail, forget, give in/give up, squander, and suffer.
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WORDS RELATED TO LOSE
- blow it
- flop
- go out of business
- lose
- wash out
- wipe out
- ameliorate
- break up
- brighten
- burn off
- clarify
- cleanse
- disencumber
- disengage
- disentangle
- eliminate
- empty
- erase
- extricate
- free
- lighten
- loosen
- lose
- meliorate
- open
- purify
- refine
- rid
- rule out
- shake off
- sweep
- throw off
- tidy
- unblock
- unburden
- unclog
- unload
- unloose
- unpack
- untie
- vacate
- void
- wipe
- abate
- abbreviate
- abridge
- become smaller
- clench
- compress
- confine
- constrict
- consume
- curtail
- decline
- decrease
- deflate
- draw in
- dwindle
- ebb
- edit
- epitomize
- evaporate
- fall away
- fall off
- grow less
- lessen
- lose
- narrow
- omit
- purse
- recede
- reduce
- shrink
- shrivel
- subside
- syncopate
- take in
- tighten
- wane
- waste
- weaken
- wither
- wrinkle
- do disservice to
- expect
- hurt
- infuriate
- lose
- necessitate
- obligate
- require
- do disservice to
- expect
- hurt
- infuriate
- lose
- necessitate
- obligate
- require
- bankrupt
- bare
- bereave
- denude
- despoil
- disinherit
- dismantle
- dispossess
- disrobe
- divest
- dock
- expropriate
- hold back
- lose
- oust
- rob
- seize
- skim
- stiff
- strip
- wrest
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