lose

• "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"

• "She lost her husband in the war"
• "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"

• "lose sight of"
• "I've lost my glasses again!"

• "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"
• "lose the crowds by climbing a mountain"
• "the lost tribe"

• "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

• turn a lossfail to make money in a business

• "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"

• "I missed that remark"
• "She missed his point"
• "We lost part of what he said"

Synonyms

• missa young female; a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) ; a form of address for an unmarried woman ; fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; feel or suffer from the lack of; fail to attend an event or activity; leave undone or leave out; fail to reach or get to; be without; fail to reach; be absent; fail to experience

• "he lost himslef in his music"

• "This author really suffers in translation"
• "The painting loses something in this light"

Synonyms

• sufferundergo or be subjected to; undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); experience (emotional) pain; put up with something or somebody unpleasant; get worse; feel pain or be in pain ; feel physical pain; feel unwell or uncomfortable; be given to; undergo or suffer; be set at a disadvantage