Lose \Lose\ (l[=oo]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lost} (l[o^]st; 115) p. pr. & vb. n. {Losing} (l[=oo]z"[i^]ng).] [OE. losien to loose, be lost, lose, AS. losian to become loose; akin to OE. leosen to lose, p. p. loren, lorn, AS. le['o]san, p. p. loren (in comp.), D. verliezen, G. verlieren, Dan. forlise, Sw. f["o]rlisa, f["o]rlora, Goth. fraliusan, also to E. loose, a & v., L. luere to loose, Gr. ly`ein, Skr. l[=u] to cut. [root]127. Cf. {Analysis}, {Palsy}, {Solve}, {Forlorn}, {Leasing}, {Loose}, {Loss}.] 1. To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle.
Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite dove. --Prior.
2. To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health.
If the salt hath lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? --Matt. v. 13.
3. Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction.
The unhappy have but hours, and these they lose. --Dryden.
4. To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way.
He hath lost his fellows. --Shak
5. To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge.
The woman that deliberates is lost. --Addison.
6. To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.
Like following life thro' creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. --Pope.
7. To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said.
He shall in no wise lose his reward. --Matt. x. 42.
I fought the battle bravely which I lost, And lost it but to Macedonians. --Dryden.
8. To cause to part with; to deprive of. [R.]
How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves with so much passion? --Sir W. Temple.
9. To prevent from gaining or obtaining.
O false heart! thou hadst almost betrayed me to eternal flames, and lost me this glory. --Baxter.
{To lose ground}, to fall behind; to suffer gradual loss or disadvantage.
{To lose heart}, to lose courage; to become timid. ``The mutineers lost heart.'' --Macaulay.
{To lose one's head}, to be thrown off one's balance; to lose the use of one's good sense or judgment, through fear, anger, or other emotion.
In the excitement of such a discovery, many scholars lost their heads. --Whitney.
{To lose one's self}. (a) To forget or mistake the bearing of surrounding objects; as, to lose one's self in a great city. (b) To have the perceptive and rational power temporarily suspended; as, we lose ourselves in sleep.
{To lose sight of}. (a) To cease to see; as, to lose sight of the land. (b) To overlook; to forget; to fail to perceive; as, he lost sight of the issue.
Lose \Lose\, v. i. To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest.
We 'll . . . hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out. --Shak.
Is it true, as he observes, that Israel had "nothing to lose" in the 1967 war because Washington would have rescued it?
Dealers attributed the higher stock market start to dollar selling on a news report that Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party might lose an election for the powerful lower house of Parliament early next year.
We quickly consigned an insurance salesman from Florida to be our "advance man," since he seemed most fit and least likely to lose the boards in the drink as we experimented with different, jerry-rigged configurations.
Do these businesses really want to lose money?
The extra money, at a minimum, would mean that an agent wouldn't lose money on very low-priced tickets; the cost of booking a ticket sometimes exceeds the actual commission on fares of less than $200.
His spokesman suggested that Russia might reconsider its borders with any republic that left the union, a statement that caused a furious reaction in both Kazakhstan and the Ukraine, the two republics that stand to lose the most.
If the economy worsens, the government will lose legitimacy, making its battle against the resistance front that much harder.
One Friday last month he asked about redundancy and was told the pit wanted to lose 15 fitters; six had so far gone. He telephoned his wife, and then, on the spur of the moment, volunteered.
You must not lose complete communication with an enemy because ignorance can cause mistakes," he said.
He did not say how many would lose their jobs and how many would be transferred.
Parents are asked to work with their kids in completing the workbooks _ rehearsing what they should do if they lose their keys, or if someone knocks at the door.
Or they could be overwhelmed and lose by a record margin.
He said it "isn't inconceivable" that some Arrow employees might also lose jobs.
Research may provide more clues to the causes of obesity, but one fact doesn't change: To lose weight and keep it off, you must develop healthy eating and exercise habits for good, the experts say.
"We lose money on those trades," says a Wall Street executive.
Eagle Star said most insurers would now examine such cases and could agree to pay out if they felt they would lose less than by going through an entire repossession. The insurer would still have the right to pursue the borrower for the shortfall.
They also must face the wrath of parents who may lose sons and daughters.
The dispute is developing into one that neither side can afford to lose.
When the athletes learned that playing dice was also an easy way to lose money, some turned to armed robbery, the students said.
Guarantees on Iraqi debt could cost the governments of the West, Japan and the Soviet Union tens of billions of dollars. Some international banks, meanwhile, could lose billions of dollars lent to Kuwait's banks.
The Armed Services Committee report estimates that the U.S. and its allies could initially lose 10 or more planes a day.
West Germany is shaping up as the country with the most to lose if and when Europe becomes a truly common market in 1992.
At least he says he hopes to lose.
The news was interpreted as a fresh signal that the economy was beginning to lose the momentum that has created upward pressure on inflation and interest rates in recent months.
Price increases in the range of 25 percent to 50 percent a month are expected in the first stage of the program, as enterprises lose their subsidies and raise prices to survive.
And even with through traffic, Deputy 92-0 may lose her effectiveness as word spreads.
Mills has admitted male graduate students since the 1930s, when the program began, said Lindsey Beaben, a Mills spokeswoman who noted that schools can lose federal funds if they exclude graduate students because of race, sex or national origin.
He says: 'We lose some each year and gain some; we are about 10 down on last year.' He adds: 'There are 122,243 unique flight numbers each day.
Opinion polls which increasingly show that a French 'no' vote is a real possibility increases the strain on weak ERM members; if the monetary union project finally unravels, the markets may lose faith altogether in current ERM parities.
Congressional talks on a final clean air bill began Friday as a White House aide said the president remains strongly opposed to giving financial aid to workers who lose jobs because of tougher pollution requirements.