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Lose

/luːz/
To no longer have something because it has disappeared or been taken away; to be unable to find something.

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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:

etymology
From Old English losian, meaning to be lost or perish, derived from Proto-Germanic *lausanan, which means to loose, release.

Usage Statistics:

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