reduce melt off lose weight slim slenderize thin slim down | take off weight |
suffer lose | be set at a disadvantage, This author really suffers in translation |
lose track | fail to keep informed or aware, She has so many books, she just lost track and cannot find this volume |
lose | fail to win, We lost the battle but we won the war |
fall back lose drop off fall behind recede | retreat |
misplace mislay lose | place (something) where one cannot find it again, I misplaced my eyeglasses |
break down lose it snap | 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 | 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 |
e flip one's lid blow up throw a fit hit the roof hit the ceiling have kittens have a fit combust blow one's stack fly off the handle flip one's wig lose one's temper blow a fuse go ballistic | get very angry and fly into a rage, The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question, Spam makes me go ballistic |
miss lose | 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 |
lose sight of | be no longer able to see, We lost sight of the tower as pulled out of the harbor |
lose | allow to go out of sight, The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light |
lose | miss from one's possessions, lose sight of, I've lost my glasses again! |
lose | 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 |
lose | fail to get or obtain, I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad |
lose turn a loss | 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 |