lose
/luz/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.08 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If you lose that ten-pound note, you'll be sorry."
- "He lost his hearing in the explosion."
- "She lost her position when the company was taken over."
- "Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him."
- "Douglas: I took some of the pension money out of the bank and I lost it on a horse. Nolan: Gambling with our employees' pensions? Douglas: Gambling? No. I was riding the horse. It fell out of my pocket."
- "Forest, who lost striker Kris Boyd to injury seconds before half-time, produced little after the break, with a Tyson sliced shot from 12 yards their only opportunity of note."
Etymology
From Middle English losen, from Old English losian. The modern pronunciation with /uː/ (instead of the /oʊ~əʊ/ that would be expected from Early Modern /ɔː/) is due to conflation with loose.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *lewh₁-, losen, losian, -
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /luz/
- British English: /luːz/
Usage
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Derived Forms
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Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
leave behind
mislay
(fail to win: forfeit
(shed: drop, shed
ditch
drop
dump
get rid of
jettison
forlese
lose