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Lost   /lɔst/   Listen
Lost

adjective
1.
No longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered.  "Lost friends" , "His lost book" , "Lost opportunities"
2.
Having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity.  Synonyms: confused, disoriented.  "The anesthetic left her completely disoriented"
3.
Spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed.  "A lost generation" , "A lost ship" , "The lost platoon"
4.
Not gained or won.  "A lost prize"
5.
Incapable of being recovered or regained.
6.
Not caught with the senses or the mind.  Synonym: missed.
7.
Deeply absorbed in thought.  Synonyms: bemused, deep in thought, preoccupied.  "Lost in thought" , "A preoccupied frown"
8.
Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment.  Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, mazed, mixed-up.  "Bewildered and confused" , "A cloudy and confounded philosopher" , "Just a mixed-up kid" , "She felt lost on the first day of school"
9.
Unable to function; without help.  Synonym: helpless.
noun
1.
People who are destined to die soon.  Synonym: doomed.


Lose

verb
(past & past part. lost; pres. part. losing)
1.
Fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense.
2.
Fail to win.
3.
Suffer the loss of a person through death or removal.  "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"
4.
Place (something) where one cannot find it again.  Synonyms: mislay, misplace.
5.
Miss from one's possessions; lose sight of.
6.
Allow to go out of sight.
7.
Fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit.  Synonym: turn a loss.  "The company turned a loss after the first year"
8.
Fail to get or obtain.
9.
Retreat.  Synonyms: drop off, fall back, fall behind, recede.
10.
Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind.  Synonym: miss.  "She missed his point" , "We lost part of what he said"
11.
Be set at a disadvantage.  Synonym: suffer.



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"Lost" Quotes from Famous Books



... gay and happy heart, Was lost in pleasant dreaming; And I had won a loving part In all ...
— Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems • James Avis Bartley
... unto God." When Abraham Lincoln dedicated, for the purposes of a graveyard, the field of Gettysburg, where so many brave soldiers had lost their lives, he said: "We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men who struggled here have consecrated it far beyond our power to add or detract. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated to the unfinished work which they who ...
— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer
... and barbarous as to be the wickedest nation upon earth, inspired by bloody and insatiable malice and wickedness. To Washington George III was a tyrant, his ministers were scoundrels, and the British people were lost to every sense of virtue. The evil of it is that, for a posterity which listened to no other comment on the issues of the Revolution, such utterances, instead of being understood as passing expressions of party bitterness, were taken as the calm judgments of men held in reverence and awe. Posterity ...
— Washington and his Comrades in Arms - A Chronicle of the War of Independence • George Wrong
... exaggerate our past unkindness perhaps, and, as is the way with our weak human nature, things out of our reach seem of double value; the affection we knew to be always at hand we never prized enough till we lost it. But should we not take this as a warning? Avoid the habit of small unkindnesses, of sharp, hurting words—even though in your heart you do not mean them. Try, my darlings, every hour and every day, to behave ...
— Hoodie • Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth
... first great parliament of the Reformation, which was now dissolved. The Lower House is known to us only as an abstraction. The debates are lost; and the details of its proceedings are visible only in faint transient gleams. We have an epitome of two sessions in the Lords' Journals; but even this partial assistance fails us with the Commons; and the Lords in this ...
— History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. • James Anthony Froude


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