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失,丟失,喪失;迷路;輸去,負;錯過;失蹤,死去,使喪失受損失,賠錢

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Lose \Lose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Losing}.] [OE. losien to
   loose, be lost, lose, AS. losian to become loose; akin to OE.
   leosen to lose, p. p. loren, lorn, AS. le['o]san, p. p. loren
   (in comp.), D. verliezen, G. verlieren, Dan. forlise, Sw.
   f["o]rlisa, f["o]rlora, Goth. fraliusan, also to E. loose, a
   & v., L. luere to loose, Gr. ?, Skr. l? to cut. [root]127.
   Cf. {Analysis}, {Palsy}, {Solve}, {Forlorn}, {Leasing},
   {Loose}, {Loss}.]
   1. To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by
      accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.;
      to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or
      pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg
      by amputation; to lose men in battle.

            Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her
            favorite dove.                        --Prior.

   2. To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer
      diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to
      lose one's health.

            If the salt hath lost his savor, wherewith shall it
            be salted ?                           --Matt. v. 13.

   3. Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to
      waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the
      benefits of instruction.

            The unhappy have but hours, and these they lose.
                                                  --Dryden.

   4. To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to
      go astray from; as, to lose one's way.

            He hath lost his fellows.             --Shak

   5. To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on
      the ledge.

            The woman that deliberates is lost.   --Addison.

   6. To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the
      whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.

            Like following life thro' creatures you dissect, You
            lose it in the moment you detect.     --Pope.

   7. To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence,
      to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I
      lost a part of what he said.

            He shall in no wise lose his reward.  --Matt. x. 42.

            I fought the battle bravely which I lost, And lost
            it but to Macedonians.                --Dryden.

   8. To cause to part with; to deprive of. [R.]

            How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves
            with so much passion ?                --Sir W.
                                                  Temple.

   9. To prevent from gaining or obtaining.

            O false heart ! thou hadst almost betrayed me to
            eternal flames, and lost me this glory. --Baxter.

   {To lose ground}, to fall behind; to suffer gradual loss or
      disadvantage.

   {To lose heart}, to lose courage; to become timid. ``The
      mutineers lost heart.'' --Macaulay.

   {To lose one's head}, to be thrown off one's balance; to lose
      the use of one's good sense or judgment.

            In the excitement of such a discovery, many scholars
            lost their heads.                     --Whitney.

   {To lose one's self}.
      (a) To forget or mistake the bearing of surrounding
          objects; as, to lose one's self in a great city.
      (b) To have the perceptive and rational power temporarily
          suspended; as, we lose ourselves in sleep.

   {To lose sight of}.
      (a) To cease to see; as, to lose sight of the land.
      (b) To overlook; to forget; to fail to perceive; as, he
          lost sight of the issue.

Lose \Lose\, v. i.
   To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off,
   esp. as the result of any kind of contest.

         We 'll . . . hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and
         we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's
         in, who's out.                           --Shak.

資料來源 : WordNet®

lose
     v 1: fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either
          physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse
          when she left it unattended on her seat" [ant: {keep}]
     2: fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war" [ant: {win}]
     3: suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She
        lost her husband in the war"; "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; "I
        misplaced my eyeglasses" [syn: {misplace}, {mislay}]
     5: miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my
        glasses again!" [ant: {find}]
     6: allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was
        shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"
     7: fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to
        profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad
        investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first
        year" [syn: {turn a loss}] [ant: {profit}, {break even}]
     8: fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a
        year abroad" [ant: {acquire}]
     9: retreat [syn: {fall back}, {drop off}, {fall behind}, {recede}]
        [ant: {gain}]
     10: fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I
         missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost
         part of what he said" [syn: {miss}]
     11: be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in
         translation" [syn: {suffer}]
     [also: {lost}]

資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

lose
     
         ({MIT}) 1. To fail.  A program loses when it
        encounters an exceptional condition or fails to work in the
        expected manner.
     
        2. To be exceptionally unesthetic or crocky.
     
        3. Of people, to be obnoxious or unusually stupid (as opposed
        to ignorant).
     
        4. Refers to something that is {losing}, especially in the
        phrases "That's a lose!" and "What a lose!"
     
        [{Jargon File}]
     
        (1995-04-19)