lose sleep
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.76 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To worry.
Example Sentences
- "I won't be losing sleep over the national budget deficit."
- "What keeps you awake at night? Worry about being self-employed. Nowadays, I don’t lose sleep over my divorce—I did for about a year."
- "I don’t lose sleep over it. My energy is with the players and the people here. I’m in here early in the morning until late at night, trying to find solutions and the best way forward."
Inflected Forms
loses sleep (present, singular)
losing sleep (participle, present)
lost sleep (participle, past)
lost sleep (past)