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Lost   /lɔst/   Listen
Lost

adjective
1.
No longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered.  "Lost friends" , "His lost book" , "Lost opportunities"
2.
Having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity.  Synonyms: confused, disoriented.  "The anesthetic left her completely disoriented"
3.
Spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed.  "A lost generation" , "A lost ship" , "The lost platoon"
4.
Not gained or won.  "A lost prize"
5.
Incapable of being recovered or regained.
6.
Not caught with the senses or the mind.  Synonym: missed.
7.
Deeply absorbed in thought.  Synonyms: bemused, deep in thought, preoccupied.  "Lost in thought" , "A preoccupied frown"
8.
Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment.  Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, mazed, mixed-up.  "Bewildered and confused" , "A cloudy and confounded philosopher" , "Just a mixed-up kid" , "She felt lost on the first day of school"
9.
Unable to function; without help.  Synonym: helpless.
noun
1.
People who are destined to die soon.  Synonym: doomed.


Lose

verb
(past & past part. lost; pres. part. losing)
1.
Fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense.
2.
Fail to win.
3.
Suffer the loss of a person through death or removal.  "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"
4.
Place (something) where one cannot find it again.  Synonyms: mislay, misplace.
5.
Miss from one's possessions; lose sight of.
6.
Allow to go out of sight.
7.
Fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit.  Synonym: turn a loss.  "The company turned a loss after the first year"
8.
Fail to get or obtain.
9.
Retreat.  Synonyms: drop off, fall back, fall behind, recede.
10.
Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind.  Synonym: miss.  "She missed his point" , "We lost part of what he said"
11.
Be set at a disadvantage.  Synonym: suffer.



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"Lost" Quotes from Famous Books



... His adversary, too, had lost all consciousness of all other things in the lust of this fierce physical battle, and when he gave presently a loud, half-strangled shout, it was not fear that he uttered or a cry for aid, but solely for joy in such ...
— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon
... loud knocking at the street door mean? And those voices and heavy footsteps outside? Some lodger who has lost his key, I suppose. And yet, my heart—What a coward I have ...
— The Queen of Hearts • Wilkie Collins
... "Oh! so that's why Mary called you back, and you didn't come to supper. You lost something. That beef and ...
— Tom Brown's Schooldays • Thomas Hughes
... minute criticisms or of offering such to any friend who may do me the honour to consult me. I am convinced that, in general, in removing even errors of a trivial or venial kind, the character of originality is lost, which, upon the whole, may be that which is most valuable in the production." This position appears doubly significant when we remember that it was assumed by a man who had only the slightest possible amount of paternal jealousy in regard to ...
— Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature • Margaret Ball
... exact credulity of his audience, should cause his exposure and lead to his being cast out of the camp as an impostor and hunted to death as a false prophet: a fate which more than once nearly overtook him. Indeed, as he aged and his nerves lost their elasticity under the tension, he became obsessed with the fixed idea that God had renounced him and that some horror would overtake him should he attempt to cross the Jordan and enter the "Promised ...
— The Emancipation of Massachusetts • Brooks Adams


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