"Lose" validity in different word game dictionaries
Dictionary | Validity |
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Scrabble US(US/Canada/Thailand - TWL/NWL) | Yes |
Scrabble UK(International - SOWPODS/CSW) | Yes |
Words with Friends(WWF) | Yes |
"lose" Definition
- [transitive] lose something/somebody to be unable to find something/somebody synonym mislay
- [transitive] lose something/somebody to have something/somebody taken away from you, especially as a result of an accident, dying, etc.
- [transitive] lose something/somebody to have to give up something; to fail to keep something/somebody
- [transitive] lose something to no longer have something, or have less of something than you had before, especially as a result of getting older
- [transitive] lose something to have less and less of a quality or ability, especially until you no longer have any of it
- [transitive, intransitive] to be defeated; to fail to win a competition, a court case, an argument, etc.; to cause somebody to be defeated
- [transitive, intransitive] to fail to keep something you want or need, especially money; to cause somebody to fail to keep something
- [transitive] lose something to fail to get, hear or understand something
- [transitive] lose somebody (informal) to be no longer understood by somebody
- [transitive] lose somebody/something to escape from somebody/something synonym evade, shake off
- [transitive] lose something to waste time or an opportunity
- [transitive, intransitive] lose (something) if a watch or clock loses or loses time, it goes too slowly or becomes a particular amount of time behind the correct time
"lose" Synonyms & Antonyms
"lose" synonyms:
- misplace,
- mislay,
- displace,
- misfile,
- be-unable-to-find,
- suffer-the-loss-of,
- lose-track-of,
- leave-behind,
- be-unable-to-put,
- forget-the-whereabouts-of,
- forget-whereabouts-of,
- place-wrongly,
- place-unwisely,
- put-in-wrong-place,
- put-in-the-wrong-place,
- forget-where-one-has-put-something,
- mislook,
- miss,
- drop
"lose" antonyms:
- find,
- locate,
- identify,
- pinpoint,
- spot,
- detect,
- distinguish,
- notice,
- recognise,
- recognize,
- discern,
- espy,
- sight,
- come-up-with,
- hunt-down,
- light-upon,
- luck-into,
- nose-out,
- pin-down