Definition: be set at a disadvantage
Usage: This author really suffers in translation
Main entry: lose
Definition: fail to win
Usage: We lost the battle but we won the war
Main entry: drop off, recede, lose, fall back, fall behind
Definition: retreat
Main entry: lose, mislay, misplace
Definition: place (something) where one cannot find it again
Usage: I misplaced my eyeglasses
Main entry: lose
Definition: suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
Usage: She lost her husband in the war; The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her
Definition: fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
Usage: I missed that remark; She missed his point; We lost part of what he said
Main entry: lose
Definition: allow to go out of sight
Usage: The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light
Main entry: lose
Definition: miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
Usage: I've lost my glasses again!
Main entry: lose
Definition: fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
Usage: She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat
Main entry: lose
Definition: fail to get or obtain
Usage: I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad
Main entry: turn a loss, lose
Definition: fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
Usage: I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!; The company turned a loss after the first year