lose

You might be confusing the word lose with loose. These words are commonly misused.

lose is one of the 1000 most common headwords.

lord - lose - lot

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo͞oz, IPA ^(key): /luːz/

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Verb

Plain form lose

Third-person singular loses

Past tense lost

Past participle lost

Present participle losing

1. (transitive) When you lose something, you don't know where it is.

   The boy lost his book some place between home and school.

   The man has lost his keys and was locked out of the house.

2. (transitive) In games, you lose when others do better than you.

   He lost the card game because he didn't know the rules.

Synonyms

• leave behind
• mislay

Antonyms

• find
• gain
• win

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