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Synonyms for lose

be defeated

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mislay

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stray from

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lose out

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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for lose

to be unable to find

to suffer the loss of

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to fail to take advantage of

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to get away from (a pursuer)

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Synonyms for lose

fail to keep or to maintain

suffer the loss of a person through death or removal

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place (something) where one cannot find it again

miss from one's possessions

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fail to make money in a business

fail to get or obtain

fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

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be set at a disadvantage

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CONWY NOC - No change C gain 3, Ind gain 1, Lab lose 2, PC lose 2.
(The University of Tennessee owns the patent, but the dairy industry owns the exclusive rights to license the claim.) And in 2004, Zemel published his book "The Calcium Key" ("the revolutionary diet discovery that will help you lose weight faster").
It's important to understand that the numbers on height/weight charts and bathroom scales are poor indicators of whether or not an athlete needs to lose weight.
Homeowners who lose their principal residence and realize a gain in excess of their Sec.
If the importance of parental and environmental inputs grew as children age, black students would be expected to lose ground relative to whites.
Although no controlled studies on the subject have been done, as noted, it does appear that persons who try to lose weight on their own are the most successful (5).
Did he not lose moral authority when he insisted on maintaining a $250 billion a year military machine when money is desperately needed for health, education, child care?
The fact that Fumento has to argue this commonsensical point is a measure of the flimflammery and magical thinking fostered by the desire to lose weight.
If you're going to lose weight the correct way, you need to remember that you're an athlete as well as an artist.
It is a fear that romance and wonder and love will not survive, ultimately, once we begin to lose a belief in, say, angels.
Other scientists argue that we can't afford to lose any species because of the medical cures they might provide.
Finally, it may be argued that officers who lose their corrective lenses in a duty-related incident are no more impaired than officers with perfect vision who get foreign objects in their eyes, such as chemical mace, fingers, or sand.
If you have the syndrome, the first-line treatment is to lose weight by eating less and exercising more.