Choose the perfect synonym or antonym for the word To fail to keep or retain something or to misplace something
Lose
/luːz/Synonyms:
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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.
Etymology:
From Middle English losen, from Old English losian meaning to be lost, perish, from Proto-Germanic *lausjaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leu- meaning to loosen, divide.
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