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Loose vs. Lose
Loose
/lus/Examples:
Mine eyes he loosed, and said:Some of its pages were loose or torn.Don't begin by trying to play fast and loose with me.
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Lose
/luːz/Examples:
People are starting to lose hope.Athos lost no more time in combating this immutable resolution.It was losing height at five thousand feet a minute now.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Lose is a verb and involves misplacing something or being defeated, just like a team might lose a game.
- Loose is an adjective and refers to something that is not tight or fixed firmly in place, such as a loose shoelace.
- Remember: there is one o in lose, much like you might lose one shoe, while loose has two os, representing how much space there is for something not to be tight.
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