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Lose

/luːz/

To fail to keep or retain something or to misplace something

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I always lose my keys.Don't lose hope, things will get better.

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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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