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adjective
Said of one who loses
Synonyms: failing, falling, undone, defeated, worsted, ruined, doomed, being wrecked, being destroyed, being shorn of, being denuded, being deprived of, being bereft of, having the worst of it, coming to grief, quit of, on the way out
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noun
The act or an instance of losing something
Synonyms: loss, misplacement
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adjective
Said of an activity in which one must lose
Synonyms: futile, desperate, lost
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verb
Fail to get or obtain
Synonyms: wasting, failing, dropping, wandering, surrendering, missing, straying, misplacing, mislaying, forfeiting, falling, eluding, displacing, defeating, defaulting, succumbing
Antonyms: winning, triumphing, keeping, succeeding, finding, achieving
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verb
Retreat
Synonyms: shaking, forgetting, suffering, receding, slipping, evading, mislaying, eluding
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verb
Fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
Synonyms: misplacing, dissipating, expending, squandering, mislaying
Antonyms: finding, maintaining, keeping
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verb
Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
Synonyms: missing, forfeiting, suffering, dropping
Antonyms: confronting, improving, facing, gaining, profiting, meeting
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verb
Place (something) where one cannot find it again
Synonyms: mislaying, misplacing